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re: Absolute Addresses

Variables are allowed to be given absolute addresses for the
purpose of accessing specific IO addresses.  This is highly
system specific, so I wouldn't expect modules using this feature
to be ported from one system to another.  Therefore, I would
think you ( the language implementor ) could put whatever was
appropriate for your implementation between the brackets.  For
instance, on PC's [0000:0001] would be an appropriate address
form.

IO Ports are sometimes thought of as a separate address space, so
I think [IO0003] might be appropriate.  In practice, most
compilers seem to provide separate procedures for dealing with
ports, usually in the system module.

I don't think you would be violating the language, or making it
non-standard if you allowed variables to have addresses in the IO
space.

                                               Tom Ruby
                                               MSRS002@ECNCDC

No disclaimers, I freely admit to my guilt.