[Dev-C++] address pointers

[Brian G. <mic...@ad...>]

I'm new to C++ and in my C++ book, I am learning about pointers. I have 
a question: can you store an address to some kind of "omnitype" pointer? 
I am thinking about doing something like this:

int *point = 0x241xff5f;
cout << *point;

so I can see what is in block 0x241xff5f. However, Dev_C++ won't allow 
me to compile this, and I think I know why: 0x241xff5f isn't 
neccessarily an int. Is there any way to do something like:

readMem("0x241xff5f");

and it would return the ONE BYTE that is located at 0x241xff5f? Would 
the first block of code work if I put an "&" in front of the address?