[PD] (ds) pointer sending over the network

Alexandre Quessy listes at sourcelibre.com
Mon Aug 28 22:27:56 CEST 2006


On 8/28/06, moritz <erstens at gmx.ch> wrote:
> Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > The "(gpointer)" message your get from a [print] object is not the
> > real form of the pointer in your patch, it's basically just a dummy
> > printout.
> i understand pointer more and more, but i understand it still not 100%... :)

A pointer is a number that expresses the location of some data in your
computer's heap memory. Two computers don't have the exact same data
at the same place and the same moment (unless you are very lucky...),
therefore, you cannot pass a pointer from a computer to an other : you
need to send the actual data that is pointed to by this pointer.

Otherwise, you could just do the exact same operations on both
computers to render the same result on both.

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Alexandre Quessy
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