3.12. 3.12 Obtaining the Address of a Memory Object
An earlier section of this chapter discusses how to use the address-of operator, "&", to take the address of a static variable.[53] Unfortunately, you cannot use the address-of operator to take the address of an automatic variable (one you declare in the var section); you cannot use it to compute the address of an anonymous variable, nor can you use this operator to take the address of a memory reference that uses an indexed or scaled indexed addressing mode (even if a static variable is part of the address expression). You may only use the address-of operator to take the address of a simple static object. Often, you will need to take the address of other memory objects as well; fortunately, ...
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