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From: pajerek@kadsma.uucp (Don Pajerek)
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Subject: Re: absolute address pointer in MS C 5.1
Keywords: absolute address pointer
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Date: 8 Jan 90 16:16:59 GMT
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In article <5850@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler) writes:
>I'm trying to print out a series of characters at an
>absolute address (up in the F000:xxxx ROM) from inside
>of an MS C 5.1 program.
>
>This doesn't work for me:
>
>	char far *machine_id = (0xFFFFE);	/* F000:FFFE */
>

>
>Thanks, in advance!
>
>Bruce W. Mohler

Try	char far *machine_id = *(char far *)0xF000FFFEL;


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