help with typemap T_PTROBJ

[Sean P. Scanlon]

Hi all,

I'm probably mis-reading the documentation, but here goes anyways:

heres the relevant portion of my .xs:

struct passwd *
vauth_getpw(arg0, arg1)
        char *  arg0
        char *  arg1
    OUTPUT:
        RETVAL 


typemap:
struct passwd *                                 T_PTROBJ


So, based on what I have read, doing this:

$pwd = vauth_getpw($arg1, $arg2);

print $pwd->pw_name, "\n";

should print the value of the pw_name, but barfs with:
Can't locate object method "pw_name" via package "struct passwdPtr"

doing this:
print ref $pwd

returns:
"struct passwdPtr"

So, I gather that a T_PTROBJ may not be what i want...

Any help with this would be great.

Thanks much,
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Sean P. Scanlon
perl -e 'print pack("h*", "3707370426c6575646f647e2e65647"), "\n"'
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