Skip to content

Reference a many-item pointer into a single-item one #294

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
wants to merge 1 commit into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from
Open

Reference a many-item pointer into a single-item one #294

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion website/versioned_docs/version-0.13/01-language-basics/13-many-item-pointers.mdx
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -33,5 +33,5 @@ the length of these buffers. It's worth noting that this function is effectively
trusting us to pass us a valid length for the given buffer.

We can convert from a many-item pointer to a single-item pointer by either
indexing an element and dereferencing that, or by using `@ptrCast` to cast the
indexing an element and referencing that, or by using `@ptrCast` to cast the
pointer type. This is only valid when the buffer has a length of at least 1.