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Assigning a Specified Memory Address to a Pointer

Assigning a Specified Memory Address to a Pointer

In low-level programming and hardware interfaces, you often need to assign a pointer to a specific physical address. To do that, you have to cast the address value using the reinterpret_cast operator. Here’s an example that shows how this is done:

 void *p;// assign address 0x5800FF to pp = reinterpret_cast (0x5800FF);
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