Re: Trying to understand the workings of a Memory Mapped I/O

Las wrote:
> thanks for your help. Would you know of a book or website that describes
> this type of process.

There are billions.

> > // *(..)
> >
> > Take the contents of the (nonsense) pointer.
>
> How does *(..) take the contents?

When used that way, it is the C idiom for "take the contents of the address".
It is followed by an address.

Before assigning this, your teacher should have explained the "address of" and
"content of" operators in C. Maybe she jumped way ahead to scare you.


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