String pointer wrong parameter type?

[Mistrel]

This works in PureBasic but as a TailBite library it's classified as "Bad parameter type: a string is expected.".

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ProcedureDLL TB_Test(*String.s)
  Debug *String.s
EndProcedure

TB_Test(@"Hello!")

[helpy]

Sorry! Originally I wrote in german! Here the translation:

According to the error message "*String.s" in the procedure declaration is interpreted as string (not as pointer) ... that means: the routine expects a string, but @"Hello!" is a pointer!

Try this:

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ProcedureDLL TB_Test(*pString.String)
  Debug "Pointer: " + Str( *pString )
  Debug "String: " + *pString\s
EndProcedure

TB_Test(@"Hello!")

The combination of pointer "*" and datatype ".s" should never be used!

[lexvictory]

@Mistrel: wasn't it discussed in one of your bug reports that a pointer with .s at the end doesn't make sense? (I'm not sure I kept reading the posts)

TB looks at the suffix (.s in this case) and uses that. Pointers would be caught in the default case.

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Select rv$
  Case "b":
    ImportFunction()\RetValue$ = "Byte"
  Case "w":
    ImportFunction()\RetValue$ = "Word"
  Case "l":
    ImportFunction()\RetValue$ = "Long"
  Case "f":
    ImportFunction()\RetValue$ = "Float"
  Case "q":
    ImportFunction()\RetValue$ = "Quad"
  Case "d":
    ImportFunction()\RetValue$ = "Double"
  Case "s":
    ImportFunction()\RetValue$ = "String"
  Default
    ImportFunction()\RetValue$ = "Long"
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[Mistrel]

@Mistrel: wasn't it discussed in one of your bug reports that a pointer with .s at the end doesn't make sense? (I'm not sure I kept reading the posts)

I made a very long post about this but it seems to have disappeared. My post is simply in regards to unexpected functionality. It's not mirroring the same behavior as PureBasic, which is unexpected.