Modbus and Unsigned Ints

[mcmahoney]

I have a project that reads the 16 bit registers from a slave device and have a problem with reading the unsigned value. I have worked out a way to read the value. if the value is positive, then I read it directly. If the value is negative, I add the value to 65535 and store it in a long location. I was wondering if there was a cleaner way of doing this.

[Simon]

I took a quick look and the Modbus Read Holding Registers function allows you to assign DW as the Master Start of Vector. So you should be able to drop the unsigned 16-bit values directly into DW operands, which are 32-bit unsigned type. That sounds like a solution, but give it a try first.