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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: absolute address pointer in MS C 5.1
Keywords: absolute address pointer
Message-ID: <1989Dec30.231831.22957@twwells.com>
Date: 30 Dec 89 23:18:31 GMT
References: <5850@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
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In article <5850@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler) writes:
:       char far *machine_id = (0xFFFFE);       /* F000:FFFE */

Try either of:

	char far *machine_id = 0xF000FFFE;
	char far *machine_id = 0xFFFEF000;

If you get compile time errors, add a cast:

	char far *machine_id = (char far *)0xF000FFFE;
	char far *machine_id = (char far *)0xFFFEF000;

This is only a guess, but is easy enough to check out.

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