From: Ron Grunwald <RGRUNWAL AT wasp DOT cs DOT cowan DOT edu DOT au>
Organization: Edith Cowan University
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, Teng Yong Jeffrey <93602081 AT neptune DOT np DOT ac DOT sg>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 12:06:13 GMT+800
Subject: Re: Question about DJGPP C syntax
Reply-To: r DOT grunwald AT cowan DOT edu DOT au

Teng Yong Jeffrey wrote:

> I recently downloaded a public-domain text windowing package
> in the form of c-winsrc.txt from garbo.uwasa.fi
> 
> I unzipped the files inside and try compiling them, but
> somehow I couldn't get DJGPP to recognize the "far"
> declarations - what's the problem?

Far pointers are used in the real mode segmented memory models. DJGPP 
uses 32-bit linear memory model, and therefore the concept of a far 
pointer makes no sense. 
To compile your code you have to remove all the 'far' attributes from 
your pointer declarations.


Regards, Ron.



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