Indirect Memory Addressing

Larry Bates lbates at swamisoft.com
Thu Jun 3 19:40:14 EDT 2004


I need to call a function in a vendor supplied
Windows .DLL file that returns an address that
points to a list of longs.  I am able to call
the function and get back the pointer (by
using membuf).  Now I need to know how to get
to the data that is pointed to by the address.

from dynwin.windll import membuf
abuf=membuf(4*"\x00)
.
. Make call to my .DLL function here
.
address=abuf.read()


address contains memory address that points
to the first entry in my list of longs, but
I don't know how to read the contents of that
address (something like peek).

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.






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