[fpc-pascal] More doubts on C to pascal header translations:

[Paulo Costa]

On 25/04/2011 08:58, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Paulo Costa said:
>> I saw that h2pas translated:
>>
>> typedef void(*callback)(int pos, void* userdata);
>>
>> to
>>
>> callback = procedure (pos:cint; var userdata:pointer);cdecl;
>
> userdata is essentially untyped, so it doesn't matter what it exactly points
> too.

Right. The trouble here was that I see var foo as a reference to foo, 
which means an implicit pointer. So var userdata:pointer is like a 
pointer to pointer and that doesn't look like the original C code...

>> shouldn't it be?
>>
>> callback = procedure (pos:cint; userdata:pointer);cdecl;
>
> It is a better translation, and also pointer style support NIL. Do you use
> -v or not?
>

OK. I did not use the -v option so I was wondering why it was selecting 
the first option.

Paulo Costa