The parameter of BNZeroMemory should be trivially copyable

[RAFD]

I've been trying to convert a AC26 add-on to AC27 and got this error message. It works well in AC26.

Here's my code.

[AllanP · Accepted solution]

There is an article from earlier this year about it

Viktor Kovacs from Graphisoft explains the change here:

Earlier every Archicad struct was a POD type, so it was safe - and actually recommended - to call BNZeroMemory on them to initialize the object. Since the API is getting more and more modern, now there are some non-POD objects where it is not safe to zero the memory since it will corrupt the data structure.

The error you get means that you shouldn't call BNZeroMemory on the API_ServerApplicationInfo struct anymore. So you can safely skip the BNZeroMemory call since the constructor will do the initialization.

You may still want to call BNZeroMemory if you are targeting older Archicad versions, in this case this code will do the trick:

API_ServerApplicationInfo appInfo = {};
#ifndef ServerMainVers_2700
    BNZeroMemory (&appInfo, sizeof (appInfo));
#endif

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/BNZeromemory-Error-in-Archicad-27/td-p/584809

I hope this helps.

[AllanP · Accepted solution]

Earlier every Archicad struct was a POD type, so it was safe - and actually recommended - to call BNZeroMemory on them to initialize the object. Since the API is getting more and more modern, now there are some non-POD objects where it is not safe to zero the memory since it will corrupt the data structure.

The error you get means that you shouldn't call BNZeroMemory on the API_ServerApplicationInfo struct anymore. So you can safely skip the BNZeroMemory call since the constructor will do the initialization.

You may still want to call BNZeroMemory if you are targeting older Archicad versions, in this case this code will do the trick:

API_ServerApplicationInfo appInfo = {};
#ifndef ServerMainVers_2700
    BNZeroMemory (&appInfo, sizeof (appInfo));
#endif

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/BNZeromemory-Error-in-Archicad-27/td-p/584809