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From:
Vincent RICHOMME <richom.v@free.fr>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:03:25 +0200
Message-ID:
<44c65c8c$0$13469$636a55ce@news.free.fr>
Hi,

I am trying to convert a C project into C++. This project is used to
hook some system calls on a Windows CE platform.

Here is the class definition:

class CHookBase
{
public:

    CHookBase(DWORD dwSysCallAddr);
    ~CHookBase(void);

    virtual void SetHook() = 0;
    virtual void InitHook();

private:
    const DWORD FIRST_METHOD;
    const DWORD CURRENT_METHOD;
    const int APICALL_SCALE;
    const int HANDLE_SHIFT;
    const DWORD METHOD_MASK;
    const DWORD HANDLE_MASK;

    BOOL m_bMode;
         DWORD m_dwPerm;
    CINFO** m_SystemAPISets;

    DWORD m_Tmp;
    DWORD m_ApiSet;
         DWORD m_Method;
    PFNVOID m_pfnOrgFunc;
};

#include "hookbase.h"
class CCreateFileHook : public CHookBase
{
public:

//----------------------- SIGNATURE OF FUNCTIONS TO
HOOK--------------------//
    typedef HANDLE t_CreateFile
        (
        LPCTSTR lpFileName,
        DWORD dwDesiredAccess,
        DWORD dwShareMode,
        LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes,
        DWORD dwCreationDisposition,
        DWORD dwFlagsAndAttributes,
        HANDLE hTemplateFile
        );

    CCreateFileHook(DWORD dwSysCallAddr);
    ~CCreateFileHook(void);

static HANDLE _CreateFileHook( LPCTSTR lpFileName, DWORD
dwDesiredAccess, DWORD dwShareMode,
LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes, DWORD dwCreationDisposition,
DWORD dwFlagsAndAttributes, HANDLE hTemplateFile);

    virtual void SetHook();

};

and here is the implementation:

/*static*/
HANDLE CCreateFileHook::_CreateFileHook( LPCTSTR lpFileName, DWORD
dwDesiredAccess, DWORD dwShareMode, LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
lpSecurityAttributes, DWORD dwCreationDisposition, DWORD
dwFlagsAndAttributes, HANDLE hTemplateFile)
{
    HANDLE H = ((t_CreateFile*) m_pfnOrgFunc
)(lpFileName,dwDesiredAccess,dwShareMode,lpSecurityAttributes,dwCreationDisposition,dwFlagsAndAttributes,hTemplateFile);
    DWORD Err = GetLastError();

        SetLastError(Err);
    return H;
}

However when I compile I got the following message :
CCreateFileHook.cpp(21) : error C2440: 'type cast' : cannot convert from
'' to 't_CreateFile (__cdecl *)'
         The expression being converted is not valid

In C this cast is allowed .........

For info :

HANDLE is a void*
PFNVOID is defined as a pointer to function returning void and taking 0
parameter (=typedef void(PFNVOID*)(void)

How can I fix that ?

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