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OK in Delphi I can use the winsock API send() function like this:

type
    TMyThing=record
        AMember: array[0..100] of char;
        ANOther: integer;
        YetANOther: TMyOtherThing;
end;

procedure Form1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
    thing: TMyThing;
begin
    {populate thing here}
    .
    .
    if send(asocket,thing, sizeof(TMyThing,0)<>sizeof(TMyThing) then
    {do some error handling}
end;

this seems to be because the winsock.pas header file describes send()
as:

function send(s: TSocket; var Buf; len, flags: Integer): Integer;
stdcall;

where the send buffer is a var pointer type.

unfortunately in C++ Builder, winsock.h declares send() as:

int PASCAL FAR send (SOCKET s, const char FAR * buf, int len, int
flags);

note the use of const char FAR * as the type for the send buffer. When I
create a similar TMyType in C++ I cant send it down my socket without
converting to some sort of char* - which I can't work out how to do !!
(I did notice that the TCustomWinSocket has a method:
int __fastcall ReceiveBuf(void *Buf, int Count);
which is looks what I want to do to my raw socket, however I want to
port the code over to UNIX at some point and guess I can't use this).

any comments/suggestions on this issue would be gratefully recieved here
or at
david.prentice@stocktrade.co.uk

Regards,

Dave Prentice