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Hello.

Can somebody tell me why this stucture definition is the 'way it is'?

typedef struct BLOCK_CHECKSUM_STATE
{
ULONG Unknown;
ULONG64 BaseAddress;
ULONG BlockSize;
ULONG Checksum;
} BLOCK_CHECKSUM_STATE, *PBLOCK_CHECKSUM_STATE;

i.e. the "*PBLOCK_CHECKSUM_STATE" being an extra argument than i am
used to seeing. Is it just a way of aliasing a pointer to
BLOCK_CHECKSUM_STATE as PBLOCK_CHECKSUM_STATE?

Cheers,
James.

Jan 9 '06 #1
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In article <11**********************@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
pi**********@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello.

Can somebody tell me why this stucture definition is the 'way it is'?

typedef struct BLOCK_CHECKSUM_STATE
{
ULONG Unknown;
ULONG64 BaseAddress;
ULONG BlockSize;
ULONG Checksum;
} BLOCK_CHECKSUM_STATE, *PBLOCK_CHECKSUM_STATE;

i.e. the "*PBLOCK_CHECKSUM_STATE" being an extra argument than i am
used to seeing. Is it just a way of aliasing a pointer to
BLOCK_CHECKSUM_STATE as PBLOCK_CHECKSUM_STATE?


yes.
Jan 9 '06 #2

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