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Subject: Re: New to DJGPP
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 01:19:49 GMT
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korpela AT islay DOT ssl DOT berkeley DOT edu (Eric J. Korpela) wrote:

>In article <4i45mo$b4k AT dub-news-svc-6 DOT compuserve DOT com>,
> <76003 DOT 3544 AT compuserve DOT com> wrote:
>>While I've been programming for awhile, I'm new to DJGPP, and have a
>>rather simple question: How does djgpp handle the "NEAR" and "FAR"
>>pointer types? Is there a switch to turn these on? 
>>
>>Steven Griffith
>>

>The easy (but not quite correct) answer is "it doesn't".  And if your
>program is not too dos dependent you can probably define them away as
>follows to get your program to run.

>#define NEAR
>#define FAR
>#define HUGE

>If your program calls the "far*" memory management routines, you'll
>probably need to define them properly, too.

>#define farmalloc(x) malloc(x)
>#define farcalloc(x,y) calloc(x,y)
>etc.

>If your program is dos dependant and requires access to specific memory
>locations or calls DOS via interrupts, it's a bit harder. Check out the
>FAQ and docs for info on how to do that.

>Eric
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Thanks for the help

Steven