Re: malloc with cc65

From	Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject	Re: malloc with cc65
Date	2023-12-31 11:58 -0500
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On Wed, 27 Dec 2023 10:00:43 +1100
Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> wrote:

>   There's no overloading going on here (notwithstanding its use the
> multiplication operator). It's really quite simple. The * operator
> means "the object pointed at". When used in a declaration it still
> means "the object pointed at". A pointer to foo (where foo is a type)
> declaration essentially means, "Declare an object which is a pointer
> such that the object pointed at by it is a foo."

I see what you're saying, after much mind bending. Maybe that is the
correct way to think about it.

The way I was thinking about it, in the declaration, the * produces a
pointer. In an expression the * produces data from a pointer.

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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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