im trying to figure out what this means. its problably not compliated at all but my c programming is a little rusty.
bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&my_addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr));
ok i get lost at the (srtruct sockaddr *)&my_addr
whats that * doing is it pointing to something. just explain that one bit of code to me. thanks.
peace out
It's a type cast. The line:
(srtruct sockaddr *)&my_addr
states:
"The address of variable 'my_addr', is a pointer of type 'struct sockaddr'."
If you aren't sure what a type cast is, it's when you tell one variable type that it's actually another one.
I believe here, your sturcture is 'struct sockaddr_in' or something similar, and you're telling the function that it is just a 'sockaddr' structure.
Quzah.
Last edited by quzah; 07-22-2002 at 10:15 PM.
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