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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'.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-30  1:05 UTC|newest]

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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