Re: malloc with cc65

From	Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject	Re: malloc with cc65
Date	2023-12-27 10:00 +1100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Thu, 21 Dec 2023 02:52 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

> 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.

  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."

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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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