From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: memset etc.
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Date:	Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:12:58 GMT
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:12:55 +0200, "ClaudioF" <mpolve AT tin DOT it> wrote:

>Sorry I'm newbie. I've a little problem with a code I've ported from Watcom:
>"General Protection Fault at eip=00002e95 etc. etc."
[snip]
>  ScreenPointer = (unsigned char *) 0x0a0000;

DJGPP uses a different way of accessing screen memory, through
_farpokeb() (and friends) into DOS_DS.  They optimize into two
instructions (load FS and write).

C:\>info libc a _far

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