www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/02/05:30:51

Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:05:14 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Christopher New <cnew01 AT athene DOT mit DOT csu DOT edu DOT au>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Far Pointers
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980831112721.2353B-100000@athene.mit.csu.edu.au>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980902110404.517T-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Christopher New wrote:

> I am more than aware that far pointers are not used in protected mode.
> But i was wondering how to access location's in memory using the flat
> model. I am in the proccess of converting old 16bit code and it's for 
> graphics so there are many references to points in far memory.

The DJGPP FAQ list (v2/faq210b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP) 
explains this issue in section 18.4.

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019