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From: michael@orcisi.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Looking for C functions to access PC memory
Message-ID: <951@orcisi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 08:50:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 11 08:50:24 1987
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Xref: yetti comp.sys.ibm.pc:8466 comp.lang.c:5057

> 	union	{
> 		struct {
> 			short: ofst,sg;    /* these may be backwards */
> 		} vals;
> 		far char * ptr;
> 	} pointr;
> 
> 	pointr.vals.sg= seg;
> 	pointr.vals.ofst=offst;

The MSC FP_OFF and FP_SEG macros supplied in one of the standard
header files might be used here instead.  Their are valid as both
rvalues and lvalues.