Casting Pointers

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Stan.

Unless I missed it, there no way to cast pointers, seems PB is VERY
peeky about that ... ( I suppose this is related to the parsing/compilation
method ). As an old C programmer I really miss it !
Any suggestion ?

Stan


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[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fred.

What do you want to do exactly ?

Fred - AlphaSND

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Stan.

What do you want to do exactly ?

Fred - AlphaSND

Something like :

*Byte_ptr.b

String_one.s = "xxx"

*Byte_ptr = () @String_one

TIA




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[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Pupil.

Something like :

*Byte_ptr.b

String_one.s = "xxx"

*Byte_ptr = () @String_one

I don't quite understand what you're looking for, but could it possible be something like this:

Code: Select all

Structure chartype
  char.b
EndStructure

string.s="hello"
*byte_ptr.chartype=@string

For i=1 To Len(string)
  new_string.s+Chr(*byte_ptr\char)
  *byte_ptr+1
Next
MessageRequester("",new_string,0)
End

Hope it helps somewhat, if not perhaps a little further explaining of what 'casting' means might clear things for me.

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fred.

Yes, using a pointer (*pointer) and a structure like Pupil have do is the best way to do it. This is the equivalent to a '*(charbuffer) = x' in C.

Fred - AlphaSND