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MLGetByteString

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg56546] MLGetByteString
• From: OT <montoz at invaliddomain.com>
• Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 02:40:49 -0400 (EDT)
• Reply-to: montoz at iol.it
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I found a little inconsistency in Mathematica 5.1 MathLink about the 
function MLGetByteString, since looking in the Help Browser I found both 
these two different prototypes:

int MLGetByteString( MLINK link, unsigned char **s, long *n, long spec)

int MLGetByteString( MLINK link, const unsigned char** sp, long* n, long 
spec)

Now, I wrote my C code assuming that the first prototype was right, and 
the code works perfectly under Windows XP; problems arise when I try to 
compile the same C code on a different computer running Linux and 
Mathematica 5.0, since I get several warnings when compiling.
It seems that the right prototype for MLGetByteString under Linux is the 
second one.

Now, my question is: how can I wright a code suitable for both the platform?

It's not beautiful to see all these warnings...

thanks in advance,

andrea