Hi, i am currently writing a library, and have the following issue. i have a class (lens) that contains the manufacturer name as a char array. I know i cant just return the array, but since the variable itself is private, i also cant return a pointer. how do i return the manufacturer name? clas…

it's pretty common practice that such a function would be passed a char array to return the string in, relying on the calling function to allocate the buffer

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dampfkadse September 4, 2025, 1:58pm 10

hi, thanks for pointing out the bug,

i am not using a char because while the values are actually hex encoded ASCII chars, they never get interpreted as such, so i chose uint8_t

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