C# Language Specification

Pointer increment and decrement

In an unsafe context, the ++ and ‑‑ operators (§7.6.9 and §7.7.5) can be applied to pointer variables of all types except void*. Thus, for every pointer type T*, the following operators are implicitly defined:

T* operator ++(T* x);

T* operator --(T* x);

The operators produce the same results as x + 1 and x - 1, respectively (§18.5.6). In other words, for a pointer variable of type T*, the ++ operator adds sizeof(T) to the address contained in the variable, and the ‑‑ operator subtracts sizeof(T) from the address contained in the variable.

If a pointer increment or decrement operation overflows the domain of the pointer type, the result is implementation-defined, but no exceptions are produced.

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