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Subject: Re: Memory management in DJGPP
Date: 3 Jan 1997 19:39:46 GMT
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In article <5ahrj3$crt$1 AT news DOT utdallas DOT edu>, rbrooks AT utdallas DOT edu says...
>
>I have a few questions about djgpp... since I am learning C++ from a
>different C++ book, there is some difficulty...
>
>First of all, gcc doesn't seem to handle the keyword far, as in:
>char far *harf;

Because DJGPP uses DPMI, it doesn't distinguish between near and far memory 
blocks, and so it doesn't recognize the far keyword (because it's 
unnecessary).  (at least I think that's it... if I'm wrong, I hope some guru 
will tell me)

>This was mentioned in the info libc.a help files...  How can I maintain a
>similar functionality?

Again, I don't think you need to bother.

>Secondly, if I want to pass a memory value to a pointer, how do I go about
>doing this?  (Both for far pointers and near pointer)  I get a warning
>about casting harf (see above) to an int without a cast if I try something
>like:
>
>char *harf = 0x0013 or something similar.

Hmmm... are you trying to get *harf to point to addy 0x0013, or are you trying 
to assign 0x0013 to whatever *harf is pointing at?