From: taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl (Tomasz Wegrzanowski)
Subject: Re: type Foo_ptr in new void*;
Date: 30 Jul 2001 01:05:55 GMT
Date: 2001-07-30T01:05:55+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9k2btj$5hj$1@news.tpi.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3B63F48A.2E2642C6@earthlink.net
In article <3B63F48A.2E2642C6@earthlink.net>, Marc A. Criley wrote:
>> I can't do this.
>> Foo is supposed to be used only as a pointer.
>> I don't know if newer version of library will use the same Foo.
>
> In tmoran's post, wherever you saw "in out Foo", change it to "in
> Foo_Pointer".
>
> In order to declare a pointer to a type, you have to have that type's
> definition. Even C requires that for "foo*" there be some declaration
> of "foo".
Not true.
You can use `struct Foo *' without declaring `struct Foo'.
You can `typedef struct Foo Foo_t;' or `typedef struct Foo *Foo_p;'
and use Foo_t and Foo_p w/o declaring `struct Foo'.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-29 4:31 type Foo_ptr in new void*; Tomasz Wegrzanowski
2001-07-29 5:56 ` tmoran
2001-07-29 8:57 ` Tomasz Wegrzanowski
2001-07-29 12:26 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-07-30 1:05 ` Tomasz Wegrzanowski [this message]
2001-07-30 1:20 ` tmoran
2001-07-30 2:09 ` James Rogers
2001-07-30 2:36 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-07-30 3:10 ` James Rogers
2001-07-31 2:14 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-07-31 1:21 ` Tomasz Wegrzanowski
2001-07-31 3:06 ` James Rogers
2001-07-31 5:02 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-07-31 7:22 ` Florian Weimer
2001-07-31 4:56 ` Darren New
2001-08-04 6:05 ` David Thompson
2001-08-05 2:27 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-07-29 13:40 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-07-29 14:12 ` Florian Weimer
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