Re: [Sheflug] stupid C question

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

> 	The problem is that user_data is a gpointer (==void *), so I
> cannot access it as I'd normally do with a pointer. This is illegal:
> *user_data = 9 ; (say)

can you not just cast it? eg:

*(int*)user_data = 9;

This is what I always do for a one off access to a void* (I have just
finished writing a WinNT device driver, which needs LOTS of this...

Craig

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