Re: LPSTR to PBYTE

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:00:52 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
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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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