Hi Alex, Thank you for your explanation. I will check @doc/diff from now.
pahihu > On 2021. May 18., at 19:59, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > > Hi Andras, > >> The example below is taken from the documentation of ‘struct’ in pil21. >> In this case ’struct’ no longer returns the address of the memory region. > > Hmm, yes, this changed a little. Is mentioned in the @doc/diff file. > > It is very useful for atomic result specifications, i.e. to dereference a > pointer for any kind of pointed type: > > : (setq P (%@ "malloc" 'N 32)) > -> 537873387608 > > : (struct P 'N -7 -4) # Store 2 int's, return value as a long > -> 17179869191 # hex "400000007" > > : (struct P 'I) # Fetch first int > -> 7 > > : (struct (+ 4 P) 'I) # Fetch second int > -> 4 > > >> With this change misc/rcsim.l no longer runs (I’ve learned it the hard way). > > Oops, haven't looked at rcsim since pil21 :( > > >> I would like to ask, that this was intentional ? > > Yes, it is a lot more useful, used heavily in e.g. in @lib/net.l. -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
