-=> Quoting Cameron Clark to Javier Kohen
 JK>         v_screen = static_cast
 JK>                 (const_cast(MK_FP(0xA000, 0x0000)));
 JK> I think those C++ casts are purely cosmetic... ;-)
 CC> It might seem that way, but using volatile is supposed to
 CC> tell the compiler that the contents may change unexpectedly and
 CC> it should avoid storing the value in registers.
Right.  No caching of the values pointed at by the pointer.  We must assume,
also, that v_screen was originally declared as volatile char *.
 CC> However, in the above statement, I've no idea what the compiler
 CC> is going to thing of a volatile,static,constant pointer to video
 CC> memory.
Nope.  The const_cast is _removing_ const (since there isn't a const in the
"brackets" ()).  The static_cast is doing nothing about static - it's
saying that we're not going to do a runtime check, but a compile time check
to change the volatile void* to volatile char*.
... ARRRRRGGGHHH!!!! ... Tension breaker, had to be done.
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