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defcon8
Could someone paste an example of why pointers to pointers could be
needed please?
needed please?
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Eric Sosman
defcon8 wrote On 10/06/05 14:42,:
Second argument to main().
Second argument to strtod(), strtol(), and so on.
Both arguments to the comparison function called by
qsort(), when you're using it to sort an array of pointers.
Second argument to main().
Second argument to strtod(), strtol(), and so on.
Both arguments to the comparison function called by
qsort(), when you're using it to sort an array of pointers.
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Alex Fraser
defcon8 said:
There are a few standard library functions that use them, eg strtol().
Alex
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Alexei A. Frounze
defcon8 said:
When you want the called function to modify some variable defined in the
calling function locally (or a global variable), you pass a pointer to that
some variable to the function. It may happen that that some variable is also
a pointer. Example, you may want a function to malloc() a buffer and somehow
return the pointer to it to the caller, yet you cannot return it by return
(if it's for instance used for telling the error code).
If you don't like pointers, try Java. Or even better Basic or Matlab. The
latter don't generally have a good idea of what a pointer/address/reference
is.
But really, there are uses for many things that are possible in the
language. Some things may be misused. Some uses may be unknown to you, but
neither means there shouldn't be such or such feature...
Alex
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Mike Wahler
defcon8 said:
Same reason you'd need a pointer to any other
type. Pointers are typically used as function
parameter(s) when the function needs to modify
its argument(s). If one of those arguments
has a pointer type, then we need a 'pointer-to-
pointer' parameter.
If you don't need them, don't use them.
-Mike
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Dale
defcon8 said:
A dynamic list of dynamic lists.