absolute address pointer in MS C 5.1

[T. William Wells]

In article <5850 at sdcc6.ucsd.edu> bruno at 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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