Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:41:31 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav AT video DOT yars DOT free DOT net>
Cc: T DOT W DOT Seddon AT ncl DOT ac DOT uk, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: need advice on djgpp vs. Turbo C
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On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:

> I meant quite that. Huge pointers was introduced to handle huge
> structures, and since library functions can't handle them what's the
> use of huge pointers? read,write,memcpy etc have to be rewritten with
> huge pointers to allow normal using of huge arrays.

It's really not that scary.  Read/write need to be handled in chunks of 
64KB anyway since DOS cannot grok more than that.  Since memcpy expands 
into inline code, I think it will work with huge pointers.  But most 
library functions don't move around buffers, so you don't need to rewrite 
libc.