Re: alien question: how to get the address of a buffer object?

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 26/07/2009 18:18, Cosmin Apreutesei wrote:
> Is there a way to get the address of a buffer object? I need to store
> the address of a buffer in a structure that I'll pack with
> alien.struct.pack. The only solution I have found till now involves
> creating another buffer just to store and later retrieve the address
> of the first one.

I used a buffer in a short test of Alien:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/272425/calling-win32-functions-returning-strings-with-alien-in-lua
I am not sure if it answers your question, as I used it in a function 
call, not a structure.

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