NAME¶

VERSION¶

SYNOPSIS¶

 void
 string_pointer_argument(const char **string)
 {
   ...
 }
 const char **
 string_pointer_return(void)
 {
   ...
 }

In your Platypus::FFI code:

 use FFI::Platypus;
 
 my $ffi = FFI::Platypus->new;
 $ffi->load_custom_type('::StringPointer' => 'string_pointer');
 
 $ffi->attach(string_pointer_argument => ['string_pointer'] => 'void');
 $ffi->attach(string_pointer_return   => [] => 'string_pointer');
 
 my $string = "foo";
 
 string_pointer_argument(\$string); # $string may be modified
 
 $ref = string_pointer_return();
 
 print $$ref;  # print the string pointed to by $ref

DESCRIPTION¶

SEE ALSO¶

FFI::Platypus

Main Platypus documentation.

FFI::Platypus::Type

Platypus types documentation.

AUTHOR¶

Contributors:

Bakkiaraj Murugesan (bakkiaraj)

Dylan Cali (calid)

pipcet

Zaki Mughal (zmughal)

Fitz Elliott (felliott)

Vickenty Fesunov (vyf)

Gregor Herrmann (gregoa)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.