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From: "Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:08:10 +0100
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

> On 2/9/2011 2:30 PM, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>> Hyman Rosen wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/9/2011 1:59 PM, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>>>> And your macro subtracts one from the bit number.
>>>
>>> No, from the ordinal :-)
>>
>> Well, /that/ level of abstraction is unusual. For C-programmers that is. ;)
>
> It's in C, so to figure out what it does, you have to read the body :-)

Unfortunately, that's much too true.


Vinzent.

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