Package: lib
Pointer object compatible with C pointer
MATLAB® automatically converts arguments passed by reference to a function in an external library. Use a pointer object instead of automatic conversion in the following situations.
The function modifies data in an input argument.
You are passing large amounts of data, and you want to control when MATLAB makes copies of the data.
The library stores and uses the pointer, so you want
the MATLAB function to control the lifetime of the lib.pointer object.
To create a lib.pointer object, use the MATLAB libpointer function.
A library function can return a lib.pointer object.
Use the setdatatype method to convert the argument
manually to use in MATLAB.
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Type of pointer, specified as a character vector, of any MATLAB numeric type, structure defined in the library, or enumeration defined in the library. For a list of valid MATLAB numeric types, refer to these tables in C and MATLAB Equivalent Types.
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Value, specified as any valid value for given type. |
| disp | Display lib.pointer type |
| isNull | Points to NULL pointer |
| plus | + (plus) operator for pointer arithmetic |
| reshape | Reshape lib.pointer array |
| setdatatype | Initialize type and size of lib.pointer object |