Re: I have a pointer, need to call method that takes a const
"bpelot@hotmail.com" <bpelothotmailcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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If I have offended Ben Voigt, I would like to offer my sincere apology.
Each
person here has taken time to offer help and insight, and I am grateful.
But
I am clearly in the dark regarding how I improperly handled Ben Voigt's
response. If you could tell me, so that I do not commit the offense in
the
future, I would appreciate it.
Not at all. In fact, I'm probably quite guilty of exactly the same thing,
which is snipping out the attribution along if the top section of the quoted
material wasn't relevant.
Note that Ulrich specifically kept the "bpelot@hotmail.com wrote" when he
replied. I'm pretty sure that's what he's talking about.
Brian
"Ulrich Eckhardt" wrote:
bpelot@hotmail.com wrote:
[ Note here: if you quote me, please pay me some respect by doing it
properly. Here you are quoting Ben Voigt, and I think he deserves the
same
treatment. ]
What's the prototype for Copy()? Is it a reference parameter? You
are
dereferencing the pArray pointer in the call and I wouldn't have
expected
that was necessary.
That was my thought too (makes me feel a little better).
I don't understand why you are passing around pointers at all when the
pointer can't be NULL anyway. That is what C++ uses references for.
The prototype
is: void Copy( const CDWordArray& src );
If I try it as suggested:
OrigArray.Copy (pArray);
I get a compiler error:
error C2664: 'Copy' : cannot convert parameter 1 from
'class CDWordArray *' to
'const class CDWordArray &'
I hope this should be clear now, using the formatting above. You actually
have to dereference a pointer to get a reference. The additional 'const'
is
then added implicitly.
Uli
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