From: "Wormy" <wormy AT technologist DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Casting pointers
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:30:33 +0100
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HI!

I would be glad if someone could help me...

char textstring[6];

let's say
textstring[0] = 0x50;
textstring[1] = 0xFF;
textstring[2] = 0x33;
textstring[3] = 0x50;
textstring[4] = 0x56;
textstring[5] = 0x80;

It's simple to get ONE BYTE when doing a printf ("%d\n",textstring[0]);

But is there a way to get a long representation of the first 4 Bytes - with
a pointer cast or so...
like I would do with a
char *memory
and do something like (long *)memory or (short *)memory...

What I would like is to get - thanks to a cast - the value 0x50FF3350
Is that possible with a cast or do I really have to do something like

longvalue = textstring[0]<<24 || textstring[1]<<16 || textstring[2]<<8 ||
textstring[3]

to get it???

Thanx in advance?

Wormy