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   The Natural Philosopher to All   
   Fscking Pointers.   
   26 Mar 25 19:11:24   
   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   It seems C has caught the disease of 'we will modify your code according   
   to what WE think it means'..   
      
   ..my pointers to 254 byte structures are going haywire when I add 256   
   bytes to them...I have to add one instead...   
   ..add that to the fact that to write to flash RAM you need to specify   
   the *offset* from flash RAM base, but to read it you need to use the   
   actual hardware address...   
      
   sigh.   
      
   What is the generic type for a simple pointer to presumably bytes, in ARM C?   
   Or should I resign myself to doing everything in 256byte chunks? the   
   structure to be read and written from Flash  is exactly that big for   
   obvious hardware reasons...   
      
      
      
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