[Lazarus] Pointer type handling

[Leonardo M. Ramé]

Hi, I'm passing a pointer buffer as void * to a C library that returns
Uint8 or Uint16 (and signed types).

If I explicitly declare the buffer as PByte, PWord, etc. I get exactly
what I need, but, I would like to work with an abstract type (for
example Pointer) and cast it depending on a flag returned by the
library.

If I pass a Pointer (instead of a PWord or PByte) and cast it to PWord,
for example. I get the same result if I have passed a PByte.

How can I handle a situation like this without explicitly define each
type?.

Regards,
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Leonardo M. Ramé
http://leonardorame.blogspot.com