[Gambas-bugtracker] Bug #2261: EXTERN function call does not work with Struct ?

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Comment #6 by Benoît MINISINI:

Not necessarily. VarPtr() on an embedded variable gives you a pointer on the first byte of the data. Then it's a matter of pointer arithmetic.

Of course, if you search the address of a deeply imbricated field of a structure, it starts to be complex.

Now that SizeOf() can return the size of a structure, it's at least easy to get the address of the n-th element of an embedded array of structure.

If you have an object reference, Object.Address() will return a pointer on the object allocation. The data is two pointers after (look at the source code of the interpreter to see the associated structure). But I suggest not base your code on that, it may change in the future.