Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From:	ab915 AT torfree DOT net (William J. Hayes)
Subject:	Re: Mem problems
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Date:	Sun, 11 Oct 1998 05:34:38 GMT
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Gloria (lucjack AT golden DOT net) wrote:
: Hi. I'm new to C. I've started a chapter in a book I bought about
: pointers. In the program I print out the address of various variables.
: The book says  the addresses should be in the 0 -  65353 range, but I
: get addresses of 300000 and above. What's going on?

The book has made the assumption that you are using a 16-bit 
real-mode compiler in the small or tiny memory model. DJGPP is a 32-bit 
protected mode compiler. It uses virtual memory, there you can see 
adresses as large as 4,294,967,295.

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