In our first part on pointers, we covered the basics and common pitfalls of pointers in C. If we had to break it down into one sentence, the main principle of pointers is that they are simply data ...

I've had to do a lot of work with pointers when working with the API. Hopefully some of you might find these items useful when you have to do the same.Obviously, you will need StrPtr, VarPtr, and ...

Just remember casting pointer to int is a bad idea. When someone port the code to 64bit the pointer will be 64bit but int usually stay at 32bit.