On Jul 5, 2010, at 10:44 PM, Justin Richards wrote:

> and in P18F97J60.h there is
> extern volatile near unsigned char       LATG;
>
> 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
>
> ...pom_HTTPExecCmd.c:200:Error [1131] type mismatch in assignment

Did you try:
    volatile neat unsigned char *addr;
??

Various C's are variously picky about having all those extra
bits match up.  You can also cast, but that would be evil.

BillW

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