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Hi,
i always resolve an "arrow up" instead an "A" when i do this (snipped!):

BYTE Byte;

Byte = 0x41;
PortWrite((BYTE)(&Byte));

BOOL PortWrite (BYTE Byte)
{
WriteFile (hPort, &Byte, sizeof (&Byte), NULL, NULL);
return TRUE;
}

what is the problem?

thx martin

resolve = receive

* Martin Petzold <> schriebt:
>

This is off-topic in [comp.lang.c++].

Perhaps try [comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32]?

See the FAQ for some other possibilities & posting guidelines.

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Martin Petzold <> spoke thus:

> i always resolve an "arrow up" instead an "A" when i do this (snipped!):

What Mr. Steinbach said, and also never multi-post again.

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Martin Petzold wrote:

>
> I always resolve an "arrow up" instead an "A" when i do this (snipped!):
>
> BYTE Byte;
>
> Byte = 0x41;
> PortWrite((BYTE)(&Byte));
>
> BOOL PortWrite (BYTE Byte) {
> WriteFile (hPort, &Byte, sizeof (&Byte), NULL, NULL);
> return TRUE;
> }
>
> what is the problem?

You don't know what you are doing.

It appears that you are attempting to write the address of a BYTE
which contains the value 0x41.

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:14:56 GMT in comp.lang.c++, (Alf
P. Steinbach) wrote,
>* Martin Petzold <> schriebt:
>>
>
>This is off-topic in [comp.lang.c++].

No it's not. The difference between a char, and the address of a char,
and the address of an array of chars, is not to be ignored in any
standard implementation of C++.

"Martin Petzold" <> wrote in message
news:c5elhv$j4e$...
> Hi,
> i always resolve an "arrow up" instead an "A" when i do this (snipped!):
>
> BYTE Byte;
>
> Byte = 0x41;
> PortWrite((BYTE)(&Byte));
>
> BOOL PortWrite (BYTE Byte)
> {
> WriteFile (hPort, &Byte, sizeof (&Byte), NULL, NULL);
> return TRUE;
> }
>
> what is the problem?
>
> thx martin

Assuming that WriteFile requires an address as the second parameter, and a
size as the third parameter, you are writing the size of an address rather
than the size of a byte.

Perhaps this will fix it:
WriteFile (hPort, &Byte, sizeof (Byte), NULL, NULL);

"Martin Petzold" <> wrote in message
news:c5elhv$j4e$...
> Hi,
> i always resolve an "arrow up" instead an "A" when i do this (snipped!):
>
> BYTE Byte;
>
> Byte = 0x41;
> PortWrite((BYTE)(&Byte));

PortWrite takes a BYTE, not a pointer to a BYTE, so just pass it Byte, not
the address of Byte.

>
> BOOL PortWrite (BYTE Byte)
> {
> WriteFile (hPort, &Byte, sizeof (&Byte), NULL, NULL);

If you're intending to write the value stored in Byte, then the size you
probably want is sizeof(BYTE), not the size of the address of the variable.

> return TRUE;
> }
>
> what is the problem?
>
> thx martin


Perhaps you want this?

PortWrite(Byte);
....
BOOL PortWrite( BYTE Byte )
{
WriteFile( hPort, &Byte, sizeof(BYTE), NULL, NULL );
....
}

?

-Howard

(Alf P. Steinbach) wrote in message news:<>...
> * Martin Petzold <> schriebt:
> >
>
> This is off-topic in [comp.lang.c++].
>
> Perhaps try [comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32]?
>
> See the FAQ for some other possibilities & posting guidelines.


Aside from the fact that you're OT, you should use "sizeof(Byte)"
instead of "sizeof(&Byte)".