combining array indicies to form a new type

hey all,

I have a byte array with 16 indicies. Is there a way that I can create a new type from combining 2 of the indicies of the array together (which will create a WORD). The word only needs to be a pointer to the array.

So if i have

[code]
Byte byteA[16];
Word word = // byteA[4] + byteA[7];
[code]

So the variable "word" will have the higher byte stored in byteA[4] and the lower byte in byteA[7].

I hope I have explained this clearly enough :)

Thanks

in windows.h there is a macro MAKEWORD that does what you want. In case you're not on windows it's defined:

Code:

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#define MAKEWORD(a, b)      ((WORD)(((BYTE)((DWORD_PTR)(a) & 0xff)) | ((WORD)((BYTE)((DWORD_PTR)(b) & 0xff))) << 8))

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note that it takes the low byte as the first parameter