operating pointer to malloc

Assume that a piece of memory space is requested by malloc

type *ptr = (type *) malloc(num * sizeof(element));

the ptr is the first address of the piece of memory.
if we want to move pointer to the next element,
it can be done like this:

ptr = ptr + 1;

the reason why plus 1 rather than sizeof(type) is the pointer has type.

more than that, 8bytes is the size of pointer rather the type which pointed by pointer.
therefore, adding 1 to pointer results in value of pointer increasing counterpart value to
the type of pointer.