[Gambas-bugtracker] Bug #3143: Structure size calculations seem off , varptr to structure do not return a pointer to data area

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Comment #3 by Brian G:

since assigning a pointer to a structure, varptr returns the actual address of the structure data.

And since structures are an interface for c programs, would it not be more proper to have a structure created with new, return the data address with varptr as well,  as in most cases
you are working with the actual structure.

and it would be consistent in all cases.

 I would not have to redefine memcpy as an example  6 times once for each structure, rather I could actually use a pointer datatype..

 and yes i could use the .data for new created structures but again, being more consistent ...



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