On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:23 PM Mark Filipak (ffmpeg) <markfili...@bog.us> wrote: > > On 02/15/2021 08:54 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:45 PM Mark Filipak (ffmpeg) > > <markfili...@bog.us> wrote: > -bigsnip- > >> The rest of 'C' syntax, and precedent, and operators, etc. I know. It's > >> just pointers that mystify > >> me. Now I understand what a struct actually is but pointers?... not so > >> much. I thought I understood, > >> but '**' fuddled it. I'm afraid I'm one of the people who, for example, > >> actually prefer BNF to > >> textual descriptions. > > > > A pointer, ultimately, is just a number - the address of the next > > thing. So the pointer-to-pointer is saying "at this address, you can > > find the address you want". > > > > If this isn't helpful, feel free to ignore it; I'm sure there's BNF > > around somewhere to explain it, but I'm not sure I could write it that > > way, sorry. > > Hahaha... I brought up BNF just to illustrate how anal compulsive I am. For > example, documentation > that's just for my eyes is full of regex & BNF. > > You've given me a good push. Thanks so much. I hope I can pull a thorn out of > your paw some day.
Or out of someone else's. Pass it forward, help the next person! :) Happy to help! ChrisA _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
