unconventional pointer values

Hi..
Well my problem is this: In C I had some code like this:

Code:

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int function(int fake_ptr)
{
    someType *pointer = fake_ptr;
   
    /* More code here */

    return some;
}

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where "fake_ptr" contained the address of some variable of type "someType" and it was passed to "function". I had to do this because I couldn't pass directly a pointer of "someType" type to "function". And in C it worked very well.

But now I tried to do the same in C++ but the compiler got this error:

" invalid conversion from 'int' to 'someType*' "

So I would like to know if there is some way to solve this without pass directly a "someType" pointer to "function" but a int variable by containing the address of some "someType" variable in C++ ??

I hope you have understand me... sorry for my bad english :(

reinterpret_cast

How about telling us what you're trying to do?
Because a newbie needing to use reinterpret_cast in C++ is a sure sign of something going badly wrong.

And passing an address in an int is a sure way not to have 64-bit compatibility.

How can your compiler not allow you to pass a someType pointer to your function? That sounds very strange to me. To check if you've done things correctly, did you declare the formal parameter as illustrated in red below?

Code:

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int function(someType* fake_ptr)
{
    someType *pointer = fake_ptr;
   
    /* More code here */

    return some;
}

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I suspect it's a callback with an established prototype. Happens in Win32 programming all the time.

Hi again, well I can't pass a someType pointer but not for my compiler, but I'm need to link C++ code to a software named LabView, in that software you can call some dll's made in any language (like C/C++), but when you configure it, it only allows some basic type of parameters (int, float, char*) but not some complex parameter or others types that the basics (and others from it owns)..

That's why in complex data I passed addresses to pointer of "someType" in int variables in C but it doesn't work in C++

So I hope you can understand me and again sorry for my bad english, and thanks in advanced...