How to assign a value to a BOOL pointer in Objective-C?

Question

I\'m having a bit of a confusion on how to assign a value to a BOOL pointer? Here\'s my code:

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Answer 1

Could be that you should write

*initialBroadcast = YES; // Where I'm having troubles

The line before seem to be a standard check to see that the pointer is valid (not nil)

Answer 2

Change -

initialBroadcast = YES;

to

(*initialBroadcast) = YES;

Since, you are assigning value to the location the pointer points to( assuming it is initialized ), initialBroadCast should be dereferenced first.

Answer 3

You need to say

*initialBroadcast = YES;

initialBroadcast is a pointer aka memory address. The * gives access to the value at the memory address that the pointer holds. So initialBroadcast is a memory address, but *initialBroadcast is a boolean or char.

Answer 4

The problem isn't the assignment, it is much more likely that you declared your instance variable to be BOOL *initialBroadcast;.

There is no reason to declare the instance variable to be a pointer (at least not unless you really do need a C array of BOOLs).. Remove the * from the declaration.

As well, that will fix your currently incorrect if() test. As it is, it is checking to see if the pointer is set, not the value.