Handling Byte Streams

[kvarnerexpress 0]

I am writing a program that needs to read/write to blocks on a floppy disk. I am using two functions (written by someone else) that are defined as follows:


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int WriteBlock(int index, BYTE *buffer, int count);int ReadBlock(int index, BYTE *buffer, int count);

I am making a call to ReadBlock() as follows:
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BYTE record_stream[512];ReadBlock(some_index,&record_stream,1);

My problem is that when I compile I get the following error:

Code:

no matching function for call to `disk::ReadBlock(int, BYTE (*)[512], int)'candidates are: int disk::ReadBlock(int, BYTE*, int)

Not having very much experience with BYTE streams I am just treating them like char arrays. My questions are:
1-Am I right to think of BYTE arrays as being similar to char arrays?
2-(more importantly)How am I supposed to properly send in a BYTE array to this function? Do I need to create the BYTE array on the heap possibly?

Anyways, thanks in advance for any help.
kvarnerexpress

[SystemWisdom 0]

Try to remember that arrays are pointers already, and thus you shouldn't need to pass the address of your variable to the function..

Try something like:

BYTE record_stream[512];ReadBlock(some_index, record_stream, 1);

I hope that helps a bit..

[dul 0]

BYTE record_stream[512];ReadBlock(some_index,&record_stream,1); Bur record_stream must be record_stream[255] try. Byte's maximum size is 255. I mean You can not use longer than 255 Length. Good luck