Thread: Byte Representation

Does any know how to represent an int as a byte-wide variable in C. I know CHAR is byte, wide. However, I would prefer to work with int, since I can make direct hexadecimal assigments.

OR UNLESS... can I make direct hex assigments to a char type variable?

Such as:
int hex;
char ch;

hex = 0x001A; //I know this is valid
ch = 0x00FF; //is this valid???

Anyone help?
Thanks in Advance
~jc

>ch = 0x00FF; //is this valid???

You'll loose anything in the high order byte, but it'll work. While dealing with one byte chars, you'd normally do -

ch = 0xFF;

chars are just spaces in memory. The memory doesn't care if you're storing ASCII or a value in hex,dec, octal or any other base.