Thread: Passing struct pointer to function

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    Passing struct pointer to function

    Hi everyone,

    I'm trying to integrate a library (BSXlite Library) into by code and I cannot understand how they pass struct pointer to function.. well this the structure

    Code:
    typedef struct {
        BSX_U8 *accelspec;  
        BSX_U8 *magspec;    
        BSX_U8 *gyrospec;   
        BSX_U8 *usecase;    
        BSX_U8 accelspec_status; 
        BSX_U8 magspec_status;   
        BSX_U8 gyrospec_status;  
        BSX_U8 usecase_status;   
    }initParam_t;
    and this is the function

    Code:
    BSX_S8 bsx_init(initParam_t*); // BSX_S8 is typedef of int8_t
    This is Integration guideline snippet (provided by the manufacturer)


    Code:
    initParam_t s_input;
    BSX_S8 init_status;
    
    
    s_input.accelspec = str_accsensorspec;
    s_input.magspec = str_magsensorspec;
    s_input.gyrospec = str_gyrosensorspec;
    s_input.usecase = str_config;
    
    init_status = bsx_init(initParam_t &s_input);
    I cannot understand why they pass the initParam_t &s_input into bsx_init() function.. It is like they create again the instance s_input..

    It couldn't be like this?

    Code:
    bsx_init(&s_input)

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    That could be a copy and paste error since it isn't valid C syntax. They probably wanted to demonstrate what you had in mind.
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    bsx_init(&s_input)
    Yes it should be.

    Did you try it?
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    Thank you guys!!
    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    Did you try it?
    I didn't, I was just reading the integration guide.

    Also, I found this syntax into another documentation and I'm not sure why they're doing this.. I know that this is a pointer typecasting but I cannot unterstand how that works..

    Code:
    s_input.accelspec = (BSX_U8 *)&str_accsensorspec;
    s_input.magspec = (BSX_U8 *)&bsxLibConfMag;
    s_input.gyrospec = (BSX_U8 *)&bsxLibConfGyro; 
    s_input.usecase = (BSX_U8 *)&bsxLibConf;
    
    bsx_init(&s_input);

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    What are the types of those variables and what are their values?
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
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    Code:
    typedef int8_t            BSX_S8;  /**< signed char */
    typedef uint8_t            BSX_U8;  /**< unsigned char */
    
    BSX_S8 bsx_init(initParam_t*);
    Code:
    typedef struct {
        BSX_U8 *accelspec;  
        BSX_U8 *magspec;    
        BSX_U8 *gyrospec;   
        BSX_U8 *usecase;    
        BSX_U8 accelspec_status; 
        BSX_U8 magspec_status;   
        BSX_U8 gyrospec_status;  
        BSX_U8 usecase_status;   
    }initParam_t;
    
    


    Code:
    BSX_U8 bsxLibConfAcc[] = {37,0,3,1,0,9,12,150,0,16,60,0,1,0,1,0,176,4,82,3,0,0,64,65,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,1,1,180,115};
    BSX_U8 bsxLibConfMag[] = {39,0,2,1,20,5,20,5,196,9,6,9,112,23,0,0,128,61,205,204,76,63,0,0,224,64,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,134,84};
    BSX_U8 bsxLibConfGyro[] = {14,0,1,1,3,9,12,136,19,16,1,1,129,46};
    BSX_U8 bsxLibConf[] = {116,6,1,1,...,114,8,0,13,226,109};// <- this one is really long so I skipped a few numbers here initParam_t s_input;
    
    s_input.accelspec = (BSX_U8 *)&bsxLibConfAcc;
    s_input.magspec = (BSX_U8 *)&bsxLibConfMag;
    s_input.gyrospec = (BSX_U8 *)&bsxLibConfGyro;
    s_input.usecase = (BSX_U8 *)&bsxLibConf; 
    
    bsx_init(&s_input);

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    That makes no sense. Consider bsxLibConfAcc: it is an array of BSX_U8, so it is implicitly convertible to a BSX_U8*. Therefore, no cast is needed. What the code you saw did instead was to take the address of bsxLibConfAcc, which is a BSX_U8(*)[N], where N is the number of elements in bsxLibConfAcc. This is the wrong type, so a cast had to be used... but the net effect is to reinterpret the address of bsxLibConfAcc as a pointer to BSX_U8. Since this address is exactly the same in value as the address of the first element of bsxLibConfAcc, the code therefore achieves the exact same net effect as:
    Code:
    s_input.accelspec = bsxLibConfAcc;
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
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    Thank you very much!!

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