creating buffers in a memory allocated void area??

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Hi,

I have a free memory area to which I'm having a void pointer (ptrMemory).
Now I would like to split that area into some buffer arrays of different
kinds like e.g. having a float pointer pointing at the first byte location
in my memory area and having a WORD pointer pointing at 100 floats later in
the memory area. Could be written like this (I know it isn't the correct way
to do it but it explain what i want to do):

float *ptrFloatBuffer;
WORD *ptrWordBuffer;

ptrFloatBuffer = (float*)ptrMemory;
ptrWordBuffer = (float*)(ptrMemory + 100 * sizeof(float);

100 * sizeof(float) is illegal because the compiler don't know that we're
talking about bytes here, but how should it be done???

Thanks
Ole


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