How to modify content of the original variable which is passed by value?

Question

There is an existing API function which does only allow the plugin(DLL) to receive three parameters and perform some action:

int ProcessMe(int nCommand, unsi         


        

Answer 1

Place the variables to modify in a struct and pass the pointer to the sturuct to the plug in:

struct MyStruct
{
    BOOL bSave;
    int nOption;
};

int ProcessMe(int nCommand, unsigned int wParam, long lParam)
{
    ((MyStruct*)lParam)->nOption = ...;
    return 0;
}

Use it like this:

int main()
{
  MyStruct struct;
  struct.bSave = TRUE;
  struct.nOption = 0;
  ProcessMe(0, 0, (long)(&struct));
  if(FALSE==struct.bSave)
    printf("bSave is modified!");
  return 1;
}

Strictly speaking this is undefined behavior. You need to check, whether it works on your platform.

Note: I used a struct here, because this way you can also pass more variables or larger variables such as double to the function.