Re: LPSTR to PBYTE
On Jan 12, 10:49 am, "Larry" <dontmewit...@got.it> wrote:
"red floyd" <no.spam.h...@its.invalid> ha scritto nel
messaggionews:higlnt$qtm$1@news.eternal-september.org...
On 1/11/2010 4:49 PM, Larry wrote:
Because you changed a *COPY* of marameo to point somewhere
else. You didn't change the data stored in marameo.
BTW, your code is C, not C++. Also, as Ian noted, PBYTE is
a windows-ism.
what do you mean by windows-ism?
That it was an idea that permeated the Windows interface for
awhile, before everyone realized how stupid it was.
supposed I needed them elsewhere wouldn't be correct to do
something like this?:
typedef unsigned char BYTE;
typedef BYTE *PBYTE;
From a language standpoint, it's legal. But it ranks as
obfuscation: something done to make your code intentionally
difficult to read and to maintain.
int main() {
PBYTE marameo = BYTE[10];
}
// it is still pure C++ I think...(i just need a pointer to a unsigned
char!)
If you need a pointer to an unsigned char: "unsigned char*".
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