From: usenet@andyburns.uk   
      
   The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
      
   > 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...   
      
   if C knows the thing being pointed to is a 254 byte struct, then adding   
   256 to it will move it by 65024 bytes surely?   
      
      
   adding 1, will move it by 254 bytes.   
      
      
   > ..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...   
      
   are you casting pointers?   
      
   > sigh.   
   >   
   > What is the generic type for a simple pointer to presumably bytes, in   
   > ARM C?   
      
   traditionally char*   
      
   > 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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