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ForeignType * voidstar -- dereference a voidstar object

Description

This is syntactic sugar for T value ptr (see ForeignType Pointer) for dereferencing pointers.

i1 : ptr = voidstar address int 5

o1 = 0x7f7a940b8ab0

o1 : ForeignObject of type void*
i2 : int * ptr

o2 = 5

o2 : ForeignObject of type int32

Ways to use this method:


The source of this document is in ForeignFunctions.m2:2016:0.