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From: rh@cs.paisley.ac.uk (Robert Hamilton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Assigning to Pointers
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Date: Fri, 1-May-87 11:00:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  1 11:00:32 1987
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In article <3537@vrdxhq.UUCP> tom@vrdxhq.UUCP (Tom Welsh) writes:
>
>This may be a dumb question, but could someone please explain
>to me how I assign an absolute address to a pointer to an array?
>
>I'm trying to overlay various structures and arrays at different
>times on top of the physical page frame in EMM.
>
>I'm using MSC 4.0
>
>I want to do the following :
>
>
>int *aa[];
>
>
>aa = 0x50000;

This is an old one. int *aa[] is actually a *constant*
So you cant assign to it.
Try int **aa; aa= (int **) 0x50000;
This should be ok. Subtle difference between *aa[] and **aa !!

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