Re: PLM programming query

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From: Garry A. Weil
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:58

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In article <1992Aug26.093356.6125@canon.co.uk> chudley@canon.co.uk (Martin Chudley) writes:
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>From: chudley@canon.co.uk (Martin Chudley)
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>Subject: PLM programming query
>Keywords: PLM 8051
>Message-ID: <1992Aug26.093356.6125@canon.co.uk>
>Date: 26 Aug 92 09:33:56 GMT
>Organization: Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd
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>Apologies for this, it shouldn't be necessary but the PLM manual isn't very
>helpful on this subject.

>All I want to do is pass a string to a procedure. At present I'm using the
>dot operator to pass a string constant in the function call and a based variable
>to access it inside the procedure, and I get garbage. Can anyone send a few
>lines of code showing how to do this - maybe I should just fork out for
>something sensible like a C compiler.

>Thanks

>-- 
>Martin Chudley (Postmaster)

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I am not sure about this for the 8051, but PLM for x86 the . operator 
returns just a 16-bit pointer. The @ operator returns a 32-bit pointer.
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From: gweil@ichips.intel.com (Garry A. Weil)
Subject: Re: PLM programming query
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