Stephen Downs a écrit : > > I am porting a Mac CodeWarrior project to FreePascal and have hit a > compile problem with a pointer. In my original code I have a structure > defined along the lines of > > testData = record > testIndex : array [0..12] of integer; > end; > > testDataPointer = ^testData; > testDataHandle = ^testDataPointer; > > Within my main code I open a file and try to read it into my structure > > testDataHdl := testDataHandle(NewHandleClear(sizeof(testData))); > OSError := FSRead(fileRefNum, numberOfBytes, testDataHdl^) > > The FSRead line fails with error: 62: Incompatible type for arg no. 3: > Got "testDataPointer", expected "Ptr" - the third parameter for FSRead is a > pointer. I presume this is because FreePascal uses typed pointers. I > tried replacing testDataHdl^ by Ptr(testDataHdl)^ but that gives a > similar error - Got "ShortInt", expected "Ptr" > > Does anyone know how I can get around this?
This is very likely a stupid suggestion but have you tried this Ptr(testDataHdl^) -- mm http://www.ellipsa.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( suppress no.sp.am. ) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
