Re: [Gretl-devel] String as pointer argument

Am 13.05.2015 um 20:10 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Wed, 13 May 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > >> apparently gretl doesn't accept strings to be passed in pointer form? >> Is this deliberate? AFAICS the docs with respect to pointers just >> talk >> about function arguments in general, not just scalars and matrices. > > What we say is (Guide, chapter 13), "Each of the type-specifiers, with > the exception of list and string, may be modified by prepending an > asterisk to the associated parameter name" to get a pointerized > version. > Right, fair enough. Note however that at the top of section 13.4 it says "Series, scalar, and matrix arguments to functions can be passed in two ways: “as they are”, or as pointers" Since I'm successfully passing around bundles in pointer-form (as also done in section 10.7 of the manual), the bundle type is missing in this enumeration I think. (It's because of these slight glitches that it's not always 100% clear to me whether the omission of string types in this list is intended or not.)