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I have a pointer and I want to assign the bytes from x to (x+1) to a unsigned short. I was hoping that I could just
(unsigned short) pointer[x]
but the first byte seems to always be empty. But when I check the value of bytes x and x+1 individually the data is there.
Where have I noobed? (I just made it a verb)
Assuming you want x to be the high bits and x+1 to be the low bits. Actually, you should keep endianness in mind here too.
EDIT:
This may also work:
However, this will be affected by endianness, for example, in little endian the first byte will be the lower 8 bits, while x+1 will be the higher bytes.