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From: dr@skivs.UUCP (David Robins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: C equiv. of Pascal "absolute" type?
Message-ID: <2811@skivs.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 89 06:25:18 GMT
Organization: Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
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On the IBM, at least, I have seen a Pascal example where an variable
of array type is then set : buffer_1 : array_type absolute $6000:0000.
This sets the buffer to start at the absolute address given.  This is
done to allow a DMA buffer to start on a page boundary, and allow
saving to a file.

Is there an equivalent in C, or a way to set such an absolute location?
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