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| <h4 class="unnumberedsubsubsec">Pointer Values</h4> |
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| <p>Pointers to target data are transmitted as they are. An exception |
| is made for pointers to buffers for which the length isn’t |
| transmitted as part of the function call, namely strings. Strings |
| are transmitted as a pointer/length pair, both as hex values, e.g. |
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| <pre class="smallexample"><code>1aaf/12</code> |
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| <p>which is a pointer to data of length 18 bytes at position 0x1aaf. |
| The length is defined as the full string length in bytes, including |
| the trailing null byte. For example, the string <code>"hello world"</code> |
| at address 0x123456 is transmitted as |
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| <pre class="smallexample"><code>123456/d</code> |
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