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Subj : can vprintf work with a list of pointers to the data-to-be-displayed ?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : R.Wieser
Date : Sun Aug 28 2005 02:50 pm

Hello all,

  I'm currently trying to create a generic (debugging) routine to display
the contents of different records.   The idea was to give the procedure
(among others) a format-string, and an array of offsets within the
to-be-read record to the different fields.

After having read the record all (I thought) I needed to do was to create,
using the record-address & filed-offsets a list with pointers into read
record, and call vprintf with the format-string and the list.

Alas, it turned out that vprint does not work that way ....

My questions :
1) is there a way to let (v)printf accept (by way of formatting information
?) pointers instead of the direct values.
If not, is there another way (apart from re-writing printf.c) or command.

2) How can I retrieve the offset of a record-field
("FieldOfset=&record_definition.field" generates an "unknown
"record_definition" error).

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