Accessing C array type from PB - looks easy enough?

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[Wayne Diamond]

Hrmm thanks very much Tom, Cecil, that looks about right
Cecil what is your email address? I have something to send you that i think youll like


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Wayne,

The thing to remember in dealing with C/C++ arrays is that
they ALWAYS start at zero (ie 0).

Thus, a five element long array would look like this:

long whatever[5];

This describes a five element array with the starting
descripter of 0 and ending at 4. With that in mind, one
can also use Tom's code as a FOR/NEXT loop:

    LOCAL i AS LONG
    FOR i = 0 TO %SHAREDINFO_BASE_COUNT -1 
        DisplayResultCode BYVAL VARPTR(pLocalInformation(i))
    NEXT

Either way works just fine!!!

Cheers,
Cecil



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[Tom Hanlin]

    LOCAL i AS LONG
    DO WHILE i < %SHAREDINFO_BASE_COUNT
        DisplayResultCode BYVAL VARPTR(pLocalInformation(i))
        INCR i
    LOOP

MoveMemory is a fine replacement for memcpy.

You may be able to do without the BYVAL VARPTR, depending on how
you declared DisplayResultCode.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[Wayne Diamond]

I think this is a simple problem , but Ill include full source to help explain it better.

Im porting some C source over to PB, Ive basically finished and am proud to say its working well so far but it was frustrating to find a barrier at the very end! - it successfully opens a mapped file and gets the correct address etc, now all I need to do is display the result. It looks very simple to do in C, but my attempts to do it in PB have not been successful
The part im stuck on is highlighted in bold. I need to retrieve the data (a resultcode), each piece of data is in an array of that type though so Im not sure how to access it!
Can anybody help me to get this port finished please? This is all I need to do now

typedef struct _SHARED_INFO
{
 LONG lResultCode;
} SHARED_INFO;
typedef SHARED_INFO * PSHARED_INFO;
typedef SHARED_INFO * LPSHARED_INFO;
 
void DisplayResultCode(PSHARED_INFO pElement)
{
 kprintf("%d", pElement->lResultCode);
}
 
void _cdecl mainCRTStartup(void)
{
	HANDLE hEventGuard = OpenEvent(EVENT_ALL_ACCESS, FALSE, SHAREDINFO_EVENT_NAME);
	HANDLE hFileMapping = OpenFileMapping(FILE_MAP_READ, FALSE, SHAREDINFO_NAME);
	if(hEventGuard == NULL | | hFileMapping == NULL)
	{
		kprintf("Error: Program not started. Start and try again.\n");
		CloseHandle(hEventGuard);
		CloseHandle(hFileMapping);
		return;
	}
 	PSHARED_INFO pLocalInformation = (PSHARED_INFO)HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), 0, SHAREDINFO_BASE_SIZE);
 	if(pLocalInformation)
	{
		PVOID pRemoteInformation = MapViewOfFile(hFileMapping, FILE_MAP_READ, 0, 0, 0);
		if(pRemoteInformation)
		{
			if(WaitForSingleObject(hEventGuard, INFINITE) == WAIT_OBJECT_0)
			{
				ResetEvent(hEventGuard);
				//
				// here is a replacement of RTL memcpy(..)
				// memcpy(pLocalInformation, pRemoteInformation, SHAREDINFO_BASE_SIZE);
				//
				__asm {
					align 4
					mov ecx, SOCKETMON_BASE_SIZE
					mov ebx, ecx
					and ebx, 3
					shr ecx, 2
					mov esi, pRemoteInformation
					mov edi, pLocalInformation
					cld
					rep movsd
					mov ecx, ebx
					rep movsb
				}
				SetEvent(hEventGuard);
			}
			UnmapViewOfFile(pRemoteInformation);
		}
		[b]for(int i = 0; i < SHAREDINFO_BASE_COUNT; i++)
		{
				DisplayResultCode(&pLocalInformation[i]);
		}[/b]
		HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), 0, pLocalInformation);
	}
	else
	kprint("Error allocating memory.\n");
	CloseHandle(hEventGuard);
	CloseHandle(hFileMapping);
}

Also, I should mention that I used MoveMemory rather than the memcpy asm version in the C source, is that ok to use?

Many thanks!

[This message has been edited by Wayne Diamond (edited October 16, 2001).]