[Gambas-user] Issues when writing and reading structures

[Brian G]

Are you using 3.18.1
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Thanks
Brian G Tuesday, 21 March 2023, 03:02PM -07:00 from T Lee Davidson  t.lee.davidson at gmail.com :

>On 3/21/23 15:57, Brian G wrote:
> When a structure containing a string is written the first byte is the length
> But when it is read back as the structure it does not use the length byte but does include the len byte  into the string field.
> I am not sure if this is correct or not.
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> p.s. is it possible to have varptr return the memory address of the structure as you can assign a pointer to a structure object.
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> Is this correct or is it a bug, not sure? But I would like to send structured data to another client and recieve it on that side
> the follow script demonstrates:
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> "Failure is the key to success;
>  each mistake teaches us something"  .. Morihei Ueshiba
> Brian G
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>When I try to run that code in the IDE, I get a SegFault at:
>   Write #f, a As Variant
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