Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!goya!nsi!javiv
From: javiv@nsi.UUCP (Javier Vilarroig Christensen.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: absolute address pointer in MS C 5.1
Keywords: absolute address pointer
Message-ID: <989@nsi.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 90 16:02:41 GMT
References: <5850@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: javiv@nsi.UUCP (Javier Vilarroig Christensen.)
Organization: Nexus Servicios de Informacion S.L. Barcelona Spain
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In article <5850@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler) writes:
>This doesn't work for me:
>
>	char far *machine_id = (0xFFFFE);	/* F000:FFFE */
>
>It doesn't work to express the address in the format that
>it is in the comment.  I've tried swapping 'char' and 'far',
>
>Any suggestions?  This must be fairly easy (its easy to make

In Xenix 286 you must use the -Me flag to enable de "far" keyword. Thew Xenix
compiler is from Microsoft, it's posibble to put it in your compiler.




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