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From: pa@lri.UUCP (Patrick Amar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: programming the dma port
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Date: Mon, 19-Jan-87 21:38:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 19 21:38:44 1987
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Organization: LRI, Orsay. France
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Hello,
when you say: *flock++ to set the lock flag, the C compiler
understands something like:
		(flock++, *(flock-1))
This means that you do the ++ on the pointer and not on the
thing pointed to by flock. To set the flag you can say:
		(*flock)++;

Patrick Amar
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