[Vala] Void*, how to deal with it

[Harry Van Haaren <harryhaaren gmail com>]

Hey All,

I've got a function in the JACK.vapi binding, that returns a buffer. Now it
doesnt "physically"
return the buffer, but returns a  void*  to the buffer.

I checked the Vala tutorial for any references to void*, and didnt find
anything...

This is the function (to be called on a Port object):
public void* get_buffer(NFrames nframes);         // nframes is a uint32..
not that it matters

And this is what I tried (master_l is of Port type):
var buffer = master_l.get_buffer(nframes);

And what I want to do with this buffer is the following:
    for(int i = 0; i < (uint32) nframes; i++)
    {
        buffer[i] = array[i];   // have an array of samples, need to write
them to this void* buffer.
    }

Any suggestions..? Thanks for reading, -Harry