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December 19, 2011 by Striker	I had a few functions that I wanted to be able to pass a register into as a pointer and manipulate, but the data type of the registers wasn't very easy for me (and I'm sure other beginners) to figure out, so I'll just leave this here for posterity. `void function foo(volatile unsigned char* reg) { *reg = 1; } int main() { foo(&PORTB); //PORTB = 1 }` If this has already been mentioned elsewhere, then I'm sorry; the forum search isn't very good.

December 19, 2011
by Striker
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I had a few functions that I wanted to be able to pass a register into as a pointer and manipulate, but the data type of the registers wasn't very easy for me (and I'm sure other beginners) to figure out, so I'll just leave this here for posterity.

void function foo(volatile unsigned char* reg)
{
    *reg = 1;
}

int main()
{
    foo(&PORTB); //PORTB = 1
}

If this has already been mentioned elsewhere, then I'm sorry; the forum search isn't very good.

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