Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:20:34 -0300
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        Rodney Bachtel <rbachtel AT ghgcorp DOT ghgcorp DOT com>
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: Pointer variables
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 09:32 12/09/96 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On 11 Sep 1996, Rodney Bachtel wrote:
>
>> Last question for a while, I promise. What is the C equiv. of the 
>> pascal pointer type? In pascal, it is a 32bit ptr, but I can't get DJGPP 
>> to do a int far *goober as is recommended for TurboC.
>
>Forget about `far', `near' and `huge' pointers when you use DJGPP.  Just 
>pointers:
>
>	int *goober;
>	char *foobar;
>	double *why_not;
>
>How about this:
>
>	/* Let's allocate 4 megabytes and never look back!  */
>	int *goober = (int *)malloc (4 * 1024 * 1024);

BTW THIS has been the main reason to convert some friends to DJGPP!

>
>Is this wonderful or what?
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