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From: gfoot AT mymail DOT com (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: GRX20 Help!
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 21:24:35 GMT
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o'toole casey wrote:

>Second.. Is there anyway to access the memory of the buffer directly so I
>dont have to use the putpixel function everytime?

and nicolas AT dsys DOT ceng DOT cea DOT fr (Eric NICOLAS) replied:

>In the GrContext datas, you have somewhere a gf_baseaddr which is the adress
>of the screen. But be aware that you'll have to manage *far* pointers, which
>is not obvious with gcc. PutPixel and others libgrx functions are REALLY fast,

What's this about far pointers? I thought they didn't exist under gcc.
AFAIK all pointers are capable of specifying any memory address... the
far keyword is not defined...

George Foot
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