trouble with structures and callbacks
Scott Heyano
slh at wolf.cs.washington.edu
Sat Nov 24 12:17:20 AEST 1990
In article <1990Nov23.231941.14801 at thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb at thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley ) writes:
||In article <2450 at kiwi.mpr.ca> baker at mprgate.mpr.ca (Sue Baker) writes:
|| DAMNIT, you can only pass the POINTER TO THE STRUCTURE,
|| NOT the actual structure.
|| So only the first 32-bits are passed, in this case
|
|No, I don't think so. K&R1 says you can. Just because you might
|not ordinarily want to. Just because in this case it is definitely
|wrong. Doesn't make it *always* wrong.
No, not C won't let you do it, but Xt won't let you do it.
The parameter must be of type caddr_t, usually 32-bits.
I got a little annoyed because someone else asked essentially
the same question here just recently.
By the way, I think you missed a level of quoting on your
quote attribution.
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