int load_byte(int memory[],int address) {
//This function works by finding the appropriate word then masking
//to obtain the relevant byte
int index,section;
switch (address>>28) {
case 0:
index = address - START_ADDRESS;
printf("index = %d",index);
case 1:
index = address - START_DATA_ADDRESS;
case 7:
index = address - START_STACK_ADDRESS;
}
section = index%4;
index = index/4;
switch (section) {
case 0:
return memory[index]&0x000000ff;
case 1:
return (memory[index]&0x0000ff00)>>8;
case 2:
return (memory[index]&0x00ff0000)>>16;
case 3:
return (memory[index]&0xff000000)>>24;
}
}
START_ADDRESS has a value of 0x00400000 and the sample address I used was 0x00400002, it's just this function that keeps giving me a seg fault, don't quite understand why as the array in question has a size of 1000. Thanks in advance.