I have a CFunction that then takes a pointer to th...

# kotlin-native

[Sam Garfinkel]

I have a CFunction that then takes a pointer to that pointer. So I actually need to do &(PVOID&)foo which is separately challenging me. PVOID is just an alias for void*. So I guess I need to figure out how to get the memory address of any particular CPointer (the actual pointer variable, not the pointed object).

[Dominaezzz]

That can't be done, you'll need another layer of indirection.

[Dominaezzz]

You can achieve this with memScoped and alloc.

[Sam Garfinkel]

Yeah I've been fiddling with that. It's a bit irritating to have to allocate additional heap memory assuming a global val foo = staticCFunction actually allocates on the heap like it would in cpp

[Sam Garfinkel]

@Dominaezzz Actually not so sure there's a way to get a pointer to the underlying variable.

[Dominaezzz]

It doesn't allocate I think. It's more like a cast.

[Dominaezzz]

There isn't a way because it means tampering with Kotlin memory "space".

[Kris Wong]

i struggled with that for a while

[Kris Wong]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54774871/unable-to-reference-kotlinx-cinterop-package-in-kotlin-multiplatform-project

[Sam Garfinkel]

Is the return value of memScoped properly reference counted/garbage collected?

[Kris Wong]

the point of memScoped is to clean up memory allocated in the block