John Wildberger <wildberger-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> writes:

changes to the effect that I can specify on the command line the memory location I want to look at. For instance to look at memory location 68 you have to type: ./mem 68 The result is: 2 bytes at offset 68 are: f84d

And this is better than: od -j 68 -N 2 -t x2 /dev/mem because??? ;)

short x; ssize_t size = read( fd, &x, 4 );

Shorts aren't 4 bytes. Perhaps you should change the '4' to: sizeof(short) or sizeof(x) or even better, use mmap(2). Or even way better, read a book: Title: Understanding the Linux Kernel ISBN: 0-596-00213-0 It'll be much less painful. HTH, -- matthew rice <matt-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> starnix inc. phone: 905-771-0017 x242 thornhill, ontario, canada http://www.starnix.com professional linux services & products -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml