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.IX Title "FFI::Platypus::Type::PointerSizeBuffer 3pm"
.TH FFI::Platypus::Type::PointerSizeBuffer 3pm "2019-02-13" "perl v5.28.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
FFI::Platypus::Type::PointerSizeBuffer \- Convert string scalar to a buffer as a pointer / size_t combination
.SH "VERSION"
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 0.83
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
In your C code:
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.Vb 5
\& void
\& function_with_buffer(void *pointer, size_t size)
\& {
\&   ...
\& }
.Ve
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.Vb 1
\& use FFI::Platypus;
\& 
\& my $ffi = FFI::Platypus\->new;
\& $ffi\->load_custom_type(\*(Aq::PointerSizeBuffer\*(Aq => \*(Aqbuffer\*(Aq);
\& 
\& $ffi\->attach(function_with_buffer => [\*(Aqbuffer\*(Aq] => \*(Aqvoid\*(Aq);
\& my $string = "content of buffer";
\& function_with_buffer($string);
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
A common pattern in C code is to pass in a region of memory as a buffer, 
consisting of a pointer and a size of the memory region.  In Perl, 
string scalars also point to a contiguous series of bytes that has a 
size, so when interfacing with C libraries it is handy to be able to 
pass in a string scalar as a pointer / size buffer pair.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
.IP "FFI::Platypus" 4
.IX Item "FFI::Platypus"
Main Platypus documentation.
.IP "FFI::Platypus::Type" 4
.IX Item "FFI::Platypus::Type"
Platypus types documentation.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>
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Contributors:
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Bakkiaraj Murugesan (bakkiaraj)
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Dylan Cali (calid)
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pipcet
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Zaki Mughal (zmughal)
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Fitz Elliott (felliott)
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Vickenty Fesunov (vyf)
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Gregor Herrmann (gregoa)
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Shlomi Fish (shlomif)
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Damyan Ivanov
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Ilya Pavlov (Ilya33)
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 by Graham Ollis.
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.