From:	kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com
Date:	Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:50:00 -0500
Message-Id:	<9702202150.AA04758@quasar.bloomberg.com >
To:	fwec AT juno DOT com
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<19970220.152037.7567.2.fwec@juno.com>
Subject:	Re: Storing pointers in a binary file
Reply-To:	kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com

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   From: fwec AT juno DOT com (Mark T Logan)
   Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 15:14:52 EST
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    In the vary near future I will be writing a funtion to write a set 
   of data to a binary file.  This set of data will have pointers in 
   it pointing to other parts of the file.  
    Since the starting address of the block of data once it is loaded
   into memory may change, I thought that the best way to store
   this would be to subtract the starting address of the block from
   each of my pointers before I store the data.  Then, when I read 
   the file from the disk, I can add the address of whatever block 
   of memory I allocate to each of the pointers.

   Is this the best / easiest / most ingenius approach I can use.
   If you know of any other other approaches, please help me.

Nope that is the best way I know.

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Art S. Kagel, kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com

A proverb is no proverb to you 'till life has illustrated it.  -- John Keats

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