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Re: Wrapping DLLs

• Posted by tone.skoda at SIOL.NET Feb 22, 2001
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Hello,
I'm no C expert either, but I can tell you that "char **s" means that this
is an array with strings as members.
So "char ***argv" would probably mean array which has members arrays which
have members strings.
You can define them all same, as C_POINTER.


----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Bucholtz <tony_bucholtz at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:07 PM
Subject: Wrapping DLLs


> G'day all
>
> I'm starting a project to wrap the InterBase headers, and came across a
> couple of examples like:
>
> void load_defaults(const char *conf_file,
>                    const char **groups,
>    int *argc,
>                    char ***argv);
>
> I'm not a C/C++ programmer, so I'm learning bits and pieces as I work thru
> this project. I think I understand the "int *argc" construct, but how do I
> wrap "const char **groups" and "char ***argv"? Is that last one really
> saying "pointer to a pointer to a pointer to a variable"?
> No wonder some people don't like C!
>
> BTW, Topica tells me "access denied" when I try to get to the EUforum
list.
> Have I been a bad boy? Have I been banned from the list? Whazzhappenin' ?
>
> Regards
> Tony
>
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