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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Looking for C functions to access PC memory
Message-ID: <6662@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 09:58:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 09:58:30 1987
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Xref: mnetor comp.sys.ibm.pc:9973 comp.lang.c:5353

Use these sparingly!

#define	PEEK(loc)	(*(char *)(loc))
#define	POKE(loc,value)	*(char *)(loc) = (value)

To access a wide datum than a byte, change "char" to "short" or "long".