In the cppreference below there are usages of static_cast to cast int* to void*,
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/c/aligned_alloc
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What the program on the URL does is first declaring two pointers (p1 and p2 of int*) and then dynamically allocating the memory using either malloc or aligned_alloc.
To see the memory alignment, it also shows the addresses of allocated memory.
This is ok for now.
However, there exist static_cast<void*>(p1) and static_cast<void*>(p2) to show the memory addresses.
Why are those cast needed?
I confirmed that without this casting, p1 and p2 themselves show the memory addresses (probably aligned or unaligned, depending on use of malloc or alligned_alloc).
For each pointer, an address shown is not different regardless of use of the casting...
