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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Novice MicroSoft C5.1 question
Message-ID: <440@demott.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 90 22:38:25 GMT
References: <17179@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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In article <17179@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
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>For portable usage, you should cast the pointer to (void *); it's not always
>true that `int *' and `void *' have the same representation.  Apparently MSC
>requires you to also use the `far' keyword in some memory models, but if they
>claim to be standard conforming, that's a bug%.

   MSC's %p prints the pointer in the format SSSS:OOOO (segment/offset), with
%Np printing only the OOOO portion.  Both forms expect a 32 bit pointer,
so non-32 bit pointers must be coerced by using the far keyword.

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