From:	"Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: far pointers again
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<Fokkema DBRA>; 1043730 <dfokkema AT cs DOT vu DOT nl> wrote in message
news:7tcdq7$7ug AT cs DOT vu DOT nl...
> Hi all!
>
> I wonder why djgpp doesn't have support for far pointers. As I understand,
> gcc is ported from unix and it will work under various unix variants like
> linux. I was told that under linux, one can create other descriptors in the
> ldt and reference to them by using far pointers (of course). If this is all
> true, I would say that gcc should support far pointers to easily reference
> to these segments.

But you are running in 32-bit protected mode, you don't need far pointers,
because everything is near if you have a selector including it.

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