Ok, I need to send a table of texts via Ptr{Ptr{Uint8}} to a C struct and
on the repl things seam to work well
julia> txt={"aa","bb"};
julia> r=cell(2);
julia> r[1]=pointer(txt[1]);
julia> r[2]=pointer(txt[2]);
julia> pr=pointer(r)
Ptr{Any} @0x0000000082edeeb0
julia> ppr = convert(Ptr{Ptr{Uint8}}, pr)
Ptr{Ptr{UInt8}} @0x0000000082edeeb0
julia> bytestring(pointer_to_array(pr,1)[1])
"aa"
so the first text string was correctly recovers.
But now if do similar but wrap it in a immutable (it has to an immutable)
that implicitly calls the same convert method, the text is lost.
immutable X
rec::Ptr{Ptr{Uint8}}
end
julia> tx = X(pr)
X(Ptr{Ptr{UInt8}} @0x0000000082edeeb0)
julia> bytestring(pointer_to_array(tx.rec,1)[1])
"\"?\t"
What am I doing wrong? How else can I create a Ptr{Ptr{UInt8}} of a cell
array of text strings?
