 Handling Byte Streams |
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 Oct 2 2005, 09:04 PM
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Super Member  Group: Members Posts: 407 Joined: 13-December 04 Member No.: 2,696  |
I am writing a program that needs to read/write to blocks on a floppy disk. I am using two functions (written by someone else) that are defined as follows:
Code: CODE int WriteBlock(int index, BYTE *buffer, int count); int ReadBlock(int index, BYTE *buffer, int count); I am making a call to ReadBlock() as follows: Code: CODE BYTE record_stream[512]; ReadBlock(some_index,&record_stream,1); My problem is that when I compile I get the following error: Code: CODE no matching function for call to `disk::ReadBlock(int, BYTE (*)[512], int)' candidates are: int disk::ReadBlock(int, BYTE*, int) Not having very much experience with BYTE streams I am just treating them like char arrays. My questions are: 1-Am I right to think of BYTE arrays as being similar to char arrays? 2-(more importantly)How am I supposed to properly send in a BYTE array to this function? Do I need to create the BYTE array on the heap possibly? Anyways, thanks in advance for any help. kvarnerexpress |
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Oct 3 2005, 01:17 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 3-May 05 From: A Canadian South of the 49th Parallel Member No.: 6,544 |
Try to remember that arrays are pointers already, and thus you shouldn't need to pass the address of your variable to the function..
Try something like: CODE BYTE record_stream[512]; ReadBlock(some_index, record_stream, 1); I hope that helps a bit.. |
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Oct 4 2005, 12:07 AM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 21-September 05 Member No.: 12,113 |
BYTE record_stream[512];
ReadBlock(some_index,&record_stream,1); Bur record_stream must be record_stream[255] try. Byte's maximum size is 255. I mean You can not use longer than 255 Length. Good luck |
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