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Date: Sat, 13 May 95 19:05:08 -0400
From: Wonkoo Kim <wkim+@pitt.edu>
To: "Kent D. Lottis" <kentl AT bdc DOT cirrus DOT com>,
DJGPP List <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Reply-To: Wonkoo Kim <wkim+@pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: Dumb Newbie Question Re:Low Memory Accesss

> Date: Sat, 13 May 95 13:59:32 -0700
> From: "Kent D. Lottis" <kentl AT bdc DOT cirrus DOT com>
> 
> Does gcc support far (16:32) pointers? I was under the (erroneous)
> impression that, coming from the boring but simple Unix world of
> flat address spaces, gcc did NOT support far pointers.

Don't worry about pointer types like 'near' or 'far' or 'huge' etc. 
when you use djgpp.  Memory space is 32-bit linear with djgpp, and
you can write programs without headache of memory segment.

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