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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
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John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote at 21:21 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:20:04 -0000 (UTC)
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
> wrote:
>
>> If you really need to, you can also pass by pointer?
>
> I admit I'm not deeply familiar with this, but AFAICT Pascal pointers
> enforce type-safety as defined by the rest of the language, meaning
> that (IIUC) you can pass a function that expects a pointer to an ARRAY
> [1..10] OF CHAR any given ARRAY [1..10] OF CHAR, but trying to give it
> a pointer to an ARRAY [1..15] OF CHAR would still be a type mismatch.
>
> So what do you do, then? Refactor the function to accept a pointer to a
> single CHAR? Add individual wrapper functions to decompose arrays of
> specific sizes into individual elements, and call the actual function
> once per element? What if the function logic can't be serialized across
> individual elements?
[snip]


Well, as long as you CAN do [] notation on a char pointer and also pass
the size as an integer, I GUESS you could do that to work around it?
Still does feel stupid though.
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