Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!watstat!dmurdoch
From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Absolute troubles
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Date: 23 Jan 90 01:08:36 GMT
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In article <8470@portia.Stanford.EDU> dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
>fails.  Actually, I'm surprised either of them works.  You are asking
>the compiler to give a variable the same address as a parameter passed
>by reference, which inherantly means that the address is not defined at
>compile time.  

Declaring something at the same address as a parameter using absolute is
fine.  On a PC, parameters are addressed at fixed offsets relative to the BP 
register, so the addresses (offsets) are known at compile time.  

Duncan Murdoch