Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!iand
From: iand@munnari.oz (Ian Robert Dobson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: LightSpeed C returning a pascal structure
Message-ID: <2583@munnari.oz>
Date: 23 Nov 88 01:55:36 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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I am writing a program which utilises the list manager and have run into
problems using LightSpeed C (3.0).  The toolbox routine:
	   Function LLastClick (lHandle : ListHandle) : Cell;
would logically translate to:
	   pascal Cell LLastClick(ListHandle lHandle)

However LSC doesn't seem to want to return a non-integral pascal data type,
so the routine is defined in the #include file as returning a 'long'.
Furthermore, the type conversion between a long and a point gives me a 'bad
cast' error, even though they are the same size.  Does anybody have a solution
to obtaining the cell (point) without manually converting the types by
splitting the long in C code.

Ian R. Dobson
University of Melbourne
munnari.oz!iand