It helps if you've hit the same issue before :)

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Dave Mazzoni <dav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow. You all are incredible -- your suggestion nailed it. Now I'm getting:
>
>  ./peekgo 0x43c00000
> mem[0]:0x3020100        mem[1]:0x7060504        mem[2]:0xb0a0908
> mem[3]:0xf0e0d0c  ...
>
> which is PERFECT. Thanks!
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Dave Mazzoni <dav...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks for the suggestions. I'm a bit confused though since Mmap returns
>> > a
>> > slice of bytes. I print all the bytes as you can see, but only the first
>> > byte at each 32 bit boundary is correct. I don't know casting several of
>> > them together would somehow derive the correct value.
>>
>> Because Mmap returns a []byte, every access using that []byte will
>> load a single byte.  But device memory is often magic.  Doing a byte
>> load and doing a word load are two very different things from the
>> device's perspective.  So what we're suggesting is that you do
>> something like
>>     b := syscall.Mmap(...)
>>     w := (*[1024]uint32)(unsafe.Pointer(&b[0]))
>> and then print w[0].  That will access the memory as a 32-bit word, not a
>> byte.
>>
>> Or conversely change your C program to print out one byte at a time
>> and see what you get.
>>
>> Ian
>
>

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