Thread: Curiosity of retrieving bytes of a data-type

Code:

 
const int GetByte(void* i, unsignedchar byte)
{
   return(int)((&i)[byte]);
 
 
}

The given function ( i believe ) will return the specified byte of a given type. I have been using this to identify endian-ness, but I was wondering if there is a way to make this work on temporary.

Such as

Code:

GetByte("A",0);

will show the address, not the actual byte value
Although

Code:

GetByte(1,0);

works as expected.

I am sure I am just blindly over-looking some simple logic, but I thought I would ask.

Thank you sincerely.