NAME

PeekPoke - Perl extension for reading and writing memory

SYNOPSIS

  use PeekPoke qw(peek poke);
  my $val = peek($address);
  poke($address, $val|1);

DESCRIPTION

peek's argument is a machine address. (Strings will be converted to numbers as usual.) peek returns the value stored at that address.

poke's arguments are a machine address and a value; the value is stored at the specified address.

Addresses and values are either 32- or 64-bit integers, depending on whether your version of Perl was compiled with 64-bit support.

EXPORT

None by default.

AUTHOR

Mark Dominus mjd-perl-peek+@plover.com Jason Dominus mjd-perl-poke+@plover.com

SEE ALSO

perl(1), Microsoft BASIC.