Setting memory address directly into pointer? (newby)

[volkswagenb]

Hello everyone, am new to this forum, and i've been programming with C for a couple of years on and off now.

I'm basically trying to read a byte from a specific memory address, by using:

UINT8 value;
UINT8 *apointer;

apointer=0x1080;
value = *apointer

-But I get a 'type mismatch' error instead.
I was wondering if anyone knows how to set the pointer address directly like this in C. I hope is not a dumb question.

Context: I'm trying to read flash bytes on an embeeded device (Freescale HCS09)

-Thanks!

 

[xwb]

Try

apointer = (UINT8*) 0x1080;

 

[volkswagenb]

Thanks a lot xwb !, sorry I'm replying so late.

I also hadn't figured out that getting a warning for "pointing to different types" wasn't necessarily bad, if that is what you need to do.
-Im still trying to fully understand pointers.

-thanks again