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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pointers on pointers in int86x
Message-ID: <1334@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 89 15:41:42 GMT
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in article <2488@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>, amw@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew M. Winkler) says:

> there are the inregs, but how do I split up a (huge) pointer into
> segment:offset. Thanks!

For Microsoft C:
#include <dos.h>

char far *ptr;

seg_val = FP_SEG(ptr);
off_val = FP_OFF(ptr);

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