Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote at 21:21 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:20:04 -0000 (UTC)
candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
wrote:
>

If you really need to, you can also pass by pointer?

>
I admit I'm not deeply familiar with this, but AFAICT Pascal pointers
enforce type-safety as defined by the rest of the language, meaning
that (IIUC) you can pass a function that expects a pointer to an ARRAY
[1..10] OF CHAR any given ARRAY [1..10] OF CHAR, but trying to give it
a pointer to an ARRAY [1..15] OF CHAR would still be a type mismatch.
>
So what do you do, then? Refactor the function to accept a pointer to a
single CHAR? Add individual wrapper functions to decompose arrays of
specific sizes into individual elements, and call the actual function
once per element? What if the function logic can't be serialized across
individual elements?

[snip]


Well, as long as you CAN do [] notation on a char pointer and also pass
the size as an integer, I GUESS you could do that to work around it?
Still does feel stupid though.
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