Re: malloc with cc65

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From	Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au>
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Subject	Re: malloc with cc65
Date	Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:05:57 +1100
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Groovy hepcat Bill Chatfield was jivin' in comp.sys.apple2.programmer on
Mon, 1 Jan 2024 03:58 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

> 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.

  Dereferences the pointer, yeah, that's basically correct. But you have
to sort-of shift your thinking sideways a bit to understand what's
really going on. A declaration containing an asterisk means "declare an
object that points at foo". That's perhaps a more idiomatic but less
technically precise way of saying "declare an object which is a pointer
such that the object pointed at by it is a foo." The asterisk itself
means "the object pointed at".
  It may sound odd at first, but makes perfect sense once you get it. :)

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  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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