Re: pointer argument trouble

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 23 May 2006 11:23:29 -0400
Message-ID:
<e4v9dh$d03$1@news.datemas.de>
voidtwerp wrote:

Am I being really stupid here - I cant see what the problem is.

how can I be getting different values in coincount[i] and count? (note
that I dont think either is correct but I cannot be sure at this
stage).

// 3rd party dll header file
extern "C" {
APIDLL_EXPORT bool _cdecl ENGINE_GetCoinCount(uint CoinValue,ulong*
cnt);


And what is the implemenatation of that function? Next time post it
because it might be relevant...

BTW, I can _guess_ what 'ulong' and 'uint' are, but you need to tell
us what it is. And, 'APIDLL_EXPORT' or '_cdecl' are also undefined
here.

}

// my .cpp file

void Help_ProductSale_CountCoins(uint coinvalue[],ulong coincount[])
{
ulong count;
for(int i=6;i--;)
{
ENGINE_GetCoinCount(coinvalue[i],&coincount[i]);
ENGINE_GetCoinCount(coinvalue[i],&count);
printf("Count %d: %d (%d)\r\n",i,coincount[i],count);


If you want to print 'unsigned long' values, you need to add 'l' to the
format specification, IIRC.

}
}
bool Test_ProductSale()
{
uint coinvalue[]={5,10,20,50,100,200};
ulong coinstart[6];
Help_ProductSale_CountCoins(coinvalue,coinstart);
}

output:
Count 5: 0 (0)
Count 4: 0 (0)
Count 3: 0 (0)
Count 2: 235138746 (0)
Count 1: 5 (0)
Count 0: 60597997 (0)


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