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From: Patrik Buckau <pb@hajtech.se>
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Subject: Re: reading a byte from memory
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:05:55 +0200
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Richard Cutting wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 16:22:28 +0100, Ari Pall Albertsson <ari@hi.is>
> wrote:
>
> >hi!
> >
> >How do I read a byte from memory? Say that I wanted to know what byte is
> >in memory location 0x801A0012. How can I read it?
> >
> >thanks
> >  Ari Pall
> >
>
> You should be able to get it with something like;
>
> byte = *( ( u_long * ) 0x801A0012 );
>

As far as me and good old mr ANSI are concerned a char* should be a pointer
to a byte not an u_long* (the later should need an explicit typecast to fit
in the variable "byte" above assuming the variable byte is defined as a char
or u_char both of wich are one byte wide/large).

Regards,
Patrik

> I'm not sure what you'd define 'byte' as though...int, long, u_long
> ???
>
> Richard.
> http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~rcutting