Typecast Array to Uload

[Unregistered]

I am having problems trying to typecast a array with four elements into a ulong. I figure it must look like something like

Ulong longthing = (ULong) Array[]

But if the array has four elements then how are they ordered in the ULong?

I have been looking around online and have not found and Array to float type casts. Can I even do this?

Clueless

[Salem]

You can't cast it, you have to do this

memcpy( &longthing, Array, sizeof(longthing) );

[QuestionC]

Actually, you can do this....

unsigned long container = * ((unsigned long *) array)

No promises about what the result will be.

[Shiro]

I know that you can map a bit-string onto structures. But I've never tried the other way or with arrays. After some experimenting I got the following result with GCC.

unsigned char array [4] = {0x01, 0x01, 0x03, 0x04};
unsigned long *container;

container = (unsigned long *) array;

printf ("%X\n", *container);

Output: 4030101