From: "Johan Venter" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <7tcdq7$7ug AT cs DOT vu DOT nl> Subject: Re: far pointers again Lines: 21 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:00:43 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.134.162.110 X-Trace: newsfeeds.bigpond.com 939117663 139.134.162.110 (Tue, 05 Oct 1999 20:01:03 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 20:01:03 EST Organization: Telstra BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.com) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com ; 1043730 wrote in message news:7tcdq7$7ug AT cs DOT vu DOT nl... > Hi all! > > I wonder why djgpp doesn't have support for far pointers. As I understand, > gcc is ported from unix and it will work under various unix variants like > linux. I was told that under linux, one can create other descriptors in the > ldt and reference to them by using far pointers (of course). If this is all > true, I would say that gcc should support far pointers to easily reference > to these segments. But you are running in 32-bit protected mode, you don't need far pointers, because everything is near if you have a selector including it. -- Johan Venter ICQ 3643877 - jventer AT writeme DOT com The TPU DJGPP Interest Group - http://surf.to/djgppig The RSXNTDJ 1.5 HOWTO - http://surf.to/rsxntdj