[ENet-discuss] Using packet-data w/o a memcpy()?

[RAULO Emmanuel IT&L@bs]

> My reading of the docs indicate that event.packet-data is a enet_uint8 *, 
> which is typecast from a pointer to char.  This implies that I should be able 
> to cast it to void*
>   
Yup, any pointer type can be cast to void*.

> void	*buffer;
>
> buffer = (void) event.packet->data;
>
> But this didn't seem to work.  Like I said, I'm a bit rusty...  So I was on 
> the right track?  I just have to fiddle with syntax, then.
>   
That should be buffer = (void*)event.packet->data; as you want a pointer.
You don't even have to cast explicitely as void* is a "more general" 
type than uint8* so buffer=event.packet->data; will work as well.
Explicit cast is only needed with pointers when the destination type is 
"more specific" than the original type, e.g. struct SomeStruct 
*structPtr = (struct SomeStruct*)buffer;

Regards,

--
Emmanuel
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