Pointers in functions and subroutines

[stephane fonteyne]

Dear Dave,

What I really mis is that there is no possibility to use pointers in arguments and as give it back as a function value. Also the be absent of constant pointers as arguments and the function value is missing.
I’m sure to learn all the languages, because I find PowerBASIC very powerful and you know how to make the language stronger by a absorbing certain OOP etc.
I would like to have that you implement this in all compilers.
I’d love to submit that possibility to the Developers en Research of the company.

I forgot something else:
I that possible that you build-in (PBDOS/PBCC/PBDLL) constant pointers?

Yours sincerely
Stephane


[This message has been edited by stephane fonteyne (edited March 14, 2000).]

[Scott Turchin]

Sure you can:

'Not all code posted, this is only a sample that you CAN.

Function Host_to_IP(hName As Asciiz) As String
hostent = GetHostByName(hName)

If hostent=0 Then
  WSAErMsg = WSAGetLastError
  Function = WSAErMsgToStr(WSAErMsg)
Else
  lpaddr.s_addr = @[email protected]@h_list
  'Get the ip address
  ptr1 = inet_ntoa(lpaddr.s_addr)
  Function = @ptr1
End If
End Function

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[Tom Hanlin]

I'll add "constant pointers" to the wish list. Thanks for the suggestion.

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