Pointer ofNull method naming

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 13/11/2019 12:43, Ty Young wrote:
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> On 11/13/19 2:28 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> I'm ok with making the documentation more precise (I'm not sure I 
>> like ofTyped()). Can you please clarify a bit what you mean by 
>> 'filler' ? Like passing null ptr to a struct setter?
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> Not struct types but more primitive native types like Pointer<Byte> or 
> Pointer<Integer>.
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> As an example, you have a function like this:
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> int foo(Pointer<Pointer<Byte>> array, Pointer<Integer> size);
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> But what you're actually interested in is at index 0 of the array, so 
> "size" isn't needed and allocating a new Pointer would be a waste.

Not sure I follow - if you are interested in index 0, doesn't that mean 
that the array would need to have at least _one_ element (e.g. size >= 1) ?

Maurizio


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>> (p.s. in these cases we have been also discussing bringing back 
>> special treatment for Java null, so that null is re-interpreted to 
>> Pointer.ofNull)
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> I haven't gone too deep down the rabbit hole, but I see 
> "LayoutTypeImpl.nullType" in BoundedPointer. Isn't that the null 
> interpretation for a Pointer?
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>> Maurizio
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