Date: Tue, 08 Nov 1994 16:38:02 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: mem.h
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>> I tried to recompile it with gcc but it requires a mem.h file, and this
>> is due to the TURBO option. I tried other DEFs, but it fails with some
>> "register" declarations.
>
>mem.h is usually included in Turbo C program to use the far heap
>memory allocation functions, and these are not required in gcc.
>I would advise to comment that include out, use the -Wall compiler
>switch and watch for the ``function without prototype'' warnings;
>then create your own mem.h which #define's those functions to call
>djgpp's substitutes (e.g., farmalloc should call malloc, farcoreleft
>should call _go32_dpmi_remaining_physical_memory, etc.).  To force
>the compiler to include your mem.h although it is given as <mem.h> in the
>program, add -I. to the compilation command line.

I think sys/farptr.h does a lot of that--why not make a fake mem.h that does
nothing but include it?

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