How to cast pointers in Zig

Question

I'm trying to rewrite a program in Zig, but I don't know how to use pointer cast. I tried to use @as, but apparently that's wrong.

fn framebufferResizeCallback(window: ?*cInclude.GLFWwindow, _: c_int, _: c_int) callconv(.C) void {
    var app = @as(*HelloTriangleApplication, cInclude.glfwGetWindowUserPointer(window));
    app.framebufferResized = true;
}

How can I fix this?

sigod · Accepted Answer · 2023-09-24 18:50:02Z

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@as is for type coercion. To do a pointer cast, you need to use @ptrCast. For example:

var app: *HelloTriangleApplication = @ptrCast(glfwGetWindowUserPointer(the_window));

or

var app = @as(*HelloTriangleApplication, @ptrCast(glfwGetWindowUserPointer(the_window)));

answered Sep 24, 2023 at 18:50

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