Hi there

I know that this is not 8051 related but I have it on an C8051F040 so its sort of related.

I have an array that I read from Flash of 6 bytes. and it is read into calendar_reg. this all works fine.

Then when I want to access an individual byte within the array I wanted to be clever and define a union so that I could access a single element within the array.

However The bytes are all mixed up when I access them, I assume that I have defined it incorrectly somehow but would like to know how.


my array has [01 02 03 04 05 06] stored in it, and I wanted to access c.control which should have 06 in it but it has 01.


typedef union CALENDAR{
unsigned char calendar_reg[CALENDAR_REGS];
unsigned char minutes;
unsigned char hours;
unsigned char date;
unsigned char month;
unsigned char year;
unsigned char control;
} CALENDAR;


thoughts are appreciated.

Regards

Marshall