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Re: malloc with cc65

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From	Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield@yahoo.com>
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Subject	Re: malloc with cc65
Date	Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:52:00 -0500
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On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:51:58 -0000 (UTC)
Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de> wrote:

> No, the syntax above isn't for assigning a value to a pointer. It's
> for assigning a value to the address the pointer points to.

OMG, it's been too long since I've written C code. Of, course you're
right and I knew that. The overloading of the * operator in one place
to define a pointer and in another place, the exact opposite, to access
the data pointed to by a pointer, has always perplexed me.

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malloc with cc65 Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield@yahoo.com> - 2023-12-14 13:53 -0500
  Re: malloc with cc65 Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de> - 2023-12-14 22:34 +0000
    Re: malloc with cc65 Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield@yahoo.com> - 2023-12-14 21:59 -0500
      Re: malloc with cc65 Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de> - 2023-12-16 00:43 +0000
        Re: malloc with cc65 Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield@yahoo.com> - 2023-12-18 00:58 -0500
          Re: malloc with cc65 Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de> - 2023-12-18 19:51 +0000
            Re: malloc with cc65 Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield@yahoo.com> - 2023-12-20 10:52 -0500
              Re: malloc with cc65 Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2023-12-27 10:00 +1100
                Re: malloc with cc65 Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield@yahoo.com> - 2023-12-31 11:58 -0500
                Re: malloc with cc65 Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2024-01-03 19:05 +1100
        Re: malloc with cc65 Colin Leroy-Mira <colin@colino.net> - 2024-02-01 21:54 +0100

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