From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 16 bit buffer
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 10:22:56 +0100
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Hello.

gienek wrote:
> Hi, I've got this tiny problem. I have something like
> this:
> 
> usnigned int *buffer16;
> unsigned long int *buffer32;
> 
> these pointers are equal.
> Now, when I want to write a word through the
> pointer buffer16 , this beast writes 32 bits.
> How to make it write 16 bits not 32???


I believe DJGPP has the ILP32 convention - integers, longs and pointers are 32
bits wide. A short is 16 bits wide for DJGPP. So you need to declare
'buffer16' as 'unsigned short *'.

HTH, regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]