Thanks Veronica,

works a treat.

I guess that is the way to inform the compiler that I really want to do this
and is not a mistake.

Cheers Justin

On 6 July 2010 14:11, Veronica Merryfield <veronica.merryfield@gmail.com>wrote:

> *((char*)0x0F8F) = 0xff;
>
> Or
>
> char *addr;
>
>  addr = (char*)0x0f8f;
>
>  *addr = 0xff;
>
>
>
> On 2010-07-05, at 10:44 PM, Justin Richards wrote:
>
> > In MCC18 I can do
> >
> > LATG = 255;
> >
> > in P18F97J60.INC there is
> >
> > LATG             EQU  H'0F8F'
> >
> > and in P18F97J60.h there is
> >
> > extern volatile near unsigned char       LATG;
> >
> > Ideally I would like reference registers by address something like this
> >
> >     char  *addr;    //create a pointer that points to registers
> >
> >    addr = 0x0F8F; //location of LATG
> >    *addr = 255;      // put this value into location 0X0F8F
> >
> > but the compiler complains
> >
> > C:\MPLAB\MyMCHPTCP\src\pom_HTTPExecCmd.c:200:Error [1131] type mismatch
> in
> > assignment
> >
> > in this line
> >
> >    addr = 0x0F8F; //location of LATG
> >
> > One may ask why I would want to do this but I want to be able to access
> > registers by address.
> >
> > Cheers Justin
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