From: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT edu (Jason M. Daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Help!
Date: 4 Jul 1997 23:25:34 GMT
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Ross Boast (Rossa AT btinternet DOT com) wrote:
> Hi,
>    Can anyone help me with this line :
> _fmemset (video_buffer,(char)3,SCREEN_WIDTH*SCREEN_HEIGHT+1);

> i have defined these varibles and have allocated the mem (in 13h mode) i
> get :
> parse error before 'unsigned' 
> which is weird coz i has no unsigned things in there!.

I can't find _fmemset in my libc reference. Is this a function of your 
own?

> Also Why doesn't this
> line work under both C and C++?

> char far *video_buffer = (char far)0xA0000000L;

> i have to remove the * and the 'far' to make it work why?.

Hmmm, gee, I dunno... maybe because there's no such thing as 'far' in 
gcc? Did you even bother to take a look at the FAQ? Section 17.7 would've 
explained that 'far' doesn't exist in DJGPP, and sections 10.2 and 18.4 
would've explained some alternate ways of doing this.

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