Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/10/13:38:31
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Andrew Crabtree wrote:
> I know there is also a near pointer concept in djgpp. I am not sure what it
> does exactly (although I assume it allows you to access memory not normally
> in your selector with just a 32 bit offset ?)
When you enable near pointers, you make your DS selector span the
entire 4GB address space. Thus you get access to every address in
your system using the usual C pointers, effectively disabling the
memory protection.
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