Hi, this is an odd request but with some very useful applications. Is it possible to use pointers to assign more than one variable to the same location in memory? For example, to define two consecutive bytes in an array to be also accessible as a single two-byte int? Then, changing the contents of t…

Pointers and sharing memory

paulrd March 22, 2012, 11:44pm 4

Aha. Union. I'd wasn't familiar with that, but looking at it it seems just what I need. Thanks!

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