Re: [Vala] Printfing an object

[Nor Jaidi Tuah <norjaidi tuah ubd edu bn>]

On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 11:07 +0200, Donn wrote:
> On 19/11/2013 10:50, Nor Jaidi Tuah wrote:
> > The answer will be obvious if you try this:
> >    var b = new Obj();
> >    var b1 = b;
> >    print ("%p %p %p %p", b, b1, &b, &b1);
>
> Obvious might be a little bold :)
>
> I get these numbers:
>
> 0xffa0c0 0xffa0c0 0x7fffbbedcfe0 0x7fffbbedcfe8
>
> I read the first two as "address of the instance" with b and b1 being
> pointers to that address.
>
> The next two ... are they the addresses of the variables "b" and "b1"
> which each *contain* the 0xffa0c0 address of the instance?

Exactly. Told you it's obvious :-)


Nice day
Nor Jaidi Tuah





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