On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Robert Scheck wrote: > Hello all, > > I am forwarding a message of Christoph Anton Mitterer (Cc'ed) which was > reported at Red Hat Bugzilla. However this does not feel for me like a > downstream thing but more relevant for popt upstream, thus relaying it: > > ----- Forwarded message ----- > Hi. > > The manpage has the following table in the section "1. THE OPTION TABLE": > Value Description arg Type > POPT_ARG_NONE No argument expected int > POPT_ARG_STRING No type checking to be performed char * > POPT_ARG_ARGV No type checking to be performed char ** > POPT_ARG_SHORT An short argument is expected short > POPT_ARG_INT An integer argument is expected int > POPT_ARG_LONG A long integer is expected long > POPT_ARG_LONGLONG A long long integer is expected long long > POPT_ARG_VAL Integer value taken from val int > POPT_ARG_FLOAT An float argument is expected float > POPT_ARG_DOUBLE A double argument is expected double > > Apparently all types but char* and char** (i.e. int, short, long, > long long, float and double) need to be pointers to the respective types. >
This is obvious from context (with just a wee bit of thought). There is no way to reference external storage in C code from a table without using a pointer. 73 de Jeff > > Cheers, > Chris. > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > Foreign references for this request are: > > - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666248 > - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811804 > > > Greetings, > Robert ______________________________________________________________________ POPT Library http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List popt-devel@rpm5.org
