Hello, fast noobi question

[DaGoblin]

So I'm doing some work here and see stuff like this:

((oclMat*)abc)->type();

If someone could help explain what exactly does this line do it would be very helpful. I've never seen something like the arrow before and the (oclmat*) baffles me. I'm not sure but I think it means it casts abc to a oclMat type that is a pointer but I'd like to hear from someone before I assume it. I also thought only int* can be pointers because a pointer should point to a number of an memory cell.

So its a few questions, thanks in advance and thanks for your time

[funprogrammer]

DaGoblin,
abc is being cast to oclMat pointer type here. My understanding is, you can have pointers to user-defined datatypes. oclMat is one such datatype in this example. After the casting, the code is accessing the type function using the arrow operator.

Hope this helps.

[DaGoblin]

Very helpful, thank you