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Re: how does one access a specific address location in C?

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: how does one access a specific address location in C?
Date 2016-06-16 15:07 +0100
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G G <gdotone@gmail.com> writes:

> how does one access a specific address location?
>
> given address say:  0x00000002
>
> given the value at that location is an int, 32 bits in size.

  *(int *)2

will treat 2 as a pointer to an int and give you the int found there.
It won't always work (you may not have permission or 2 might not be a
properly aligned address for an int and so on) but it's about the best
you can do.

> ------
>
> given address say: 0x00000006
>
> given the value at that location in a char, 16 bits in size.

Do you mean "is a char"?  *(char *)6 would be a start, but is char really
16 bits on your target system?

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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how does one access a specific address location in C? G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 06:32 -0700
  Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-06-16 14:00 +0000
  Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-06-16 15:07 +0100
    Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 07:18 -0700
      Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-16 11:38 -0500
  Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-16 09:16 -0500
    Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 07:50 -0700
      Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 08:04 -0700
        Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-06-16 17:03 +0100
          Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 10:01 -0700
            Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-06-16 14:29 -0400
            Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-16 13:34 -0500
              Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-06-16 19:57 +0100
                Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-06-18 20:50 +0000
                Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-06-18 17:23 -0400
                Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-06-18 21:30 +0000
            Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-06-16 21:09 +0100
        Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-16 11:10 -0500
      Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-06-16 13:41 -0400
        Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 11:14 -0700
          Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-06-16 11:26 -0700
          Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-06-16 16:38 -0400
      Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-06-18 11:32 -0400
  Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-06-16 12:45 -0400
    Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 10:19 -0700
    Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-06-16 11:20 -0700
    Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-06-16 11:38 -0700
      Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-06-18 13:19 +0000
        Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-06-18 07:11 -0700
          Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-18 14:41 -0500
            Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-06-18 16:02 -0700
              Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-06-18 18:53 -0500
                Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-06-18 17:31 -0700
                Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-06-19 06:47 -0500
                Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-19 00:37 -0500
                Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-06-19 11:07 +0100
                Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-19 16:21 -0500
              Re: how does one access a specific address location in C? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-19 00:34 -0500

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