28 Aug
2006
28 Aug
'06
10:27 p.m.
On 8/28/06, moritz erstens@gmx.ch wrote:
Frank Barknecht wrote:
The "(gpointer)" message your get from a [print] object is not the real form of the pointer in your patch, it's basically just a dummy printout.
i understand pointer more and more, but i understand it still not 100%... :)
A pointer is a number that expresses the location of some data in your computer's heap memory. Two computers don't have the exact same data at the same place and the same moment (unless you are very lucky...), therefore, you cannot pass a pointer from a computer to an other : you need to send the actual data that is pointed to by this pointer.
Otherwise, you could just do the exact same operations on both computers to render the same result on both.
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