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From: platt@ndla.UUCP (Daniel E. Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How poke in Quick-C to PC memory ?
Summary: how to poke...
Message-ID: <193@ndla.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 89 00:36:24 GMT
References: <6416@bmc.uu.se>
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In article <6416@bmc.uu.se>, aring@bmc.uu.se writes:
> How do you poke, in quick-C, to a memory adress on a PC ?
> Equivalently, how do you set a pointer to point to, say, the base of
> a memory mapped I/O board ? 
> gratefull for help, Avi Ring.

If the address is addr (type long) such as

	0x010023afL

where the above refers to location 0100:23af
and you want to put a data type 'foo' there, you can refer to
that memory as (foo *)0x010023afL.

Dan Platt

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