Rolf Magnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is there a way to force a global variable to be at a specific memory
: address? I have been looking through the variable attributes list in the
: documentation, but didn't find anything. I want to use this to access some
: special i/o registers that are mapped to specific memory addresses.
What about a reference?
// most ugly and dangeraous code:
int main() {
int* a = (int*) 0x20000;
int& b = *a; // b refers to addres 0x20000
return 0;
}
or - as you asked for a global variable -
int& x = *((int*) 0x20000);
int main() {
return 0;
}
at least, it compiles.
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-lauther
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