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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 19:50

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"Eugene Mayevski" <mayevski@eldos.org> wrote in message
news:3f313a1a@newsgroups.borland.com...

> In Delphi you need to pass not
>
> p : pointer;
> ReceiveBuf(p, 4);
>
> but ReceiveBuf(p^, 4);

That is not correct.  The first is the correct way, assuming the pointer is
pointing to actual memory at the time of calling ReceiveBuf().

> in C++ it might be necessary to call
>
> char* mem = (char*) malloc(5);
> Socket->ReceiveBuf(*mem, 4);

That is not correct, either.  Passing 'mem' without dereferencing it is the
correct way.


Gambit

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