Re: Struggling with API QDFRTVFD

On 2014-08-19 09:10, Frank Kolmann wrote:
>   also I must admit I dont really know what this code means
>   p_QDFFINFO = (QDFFINFO_t *)((char *) p_QDFFBASE + p_QDFFBASE->WDFFINOF);
>   I know it sets a pointer to the data but what does
>           (QDFFINFO_t *)((char *)  mean ?
>

p_QDFFBASE + p_QDFFBASE->WDFFINOF
says to add the offset p_QDFFBASE->WDFFINOF to the pointer p_QDFFBASE. 
In C, when you add an offset, say 5, to a pointer, it doesn't add 5 
bytes to the pointer, it adds 5 multiples of the type of the pointer. So 
if p_QDFFBASE is a pointer to a structure of length 32, adding 5 to the 
pointer would actually add 5*32 bytes.

(char *) p_QDFFBASE

means to interpret p_QDFFBASE as a pointer to char, no matter what type 
p_QDFFBASE actually is. This forces the addition of the offset to be in 
bytes.

(QDFFINFO_t *) casts the resulting pointer to be a pointer to a 
QDFFINFO_t structure, which allows it to be assigned to p_QDFFINFO.

So the whole thing means to take the p_QDFFBASE pointer, add 
p_QDFFBASE->WDFFINOF bytes to it, and assign it to p_QDFFINFO.

-- 
Barbara

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