From: afonso AT inesca DOT inesca DOT pt (Ernesto R. Afonso)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: unsigned char *far : problems
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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 18:34:39 GMT
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On 3 Dec 1996 18:26:44 GMT, "Thomas Harte" <T DOT Harte AT btinternet DOT com>
wrote:

>I have just moved over from a 'friendly' Microsoft compiler, and have tried
>compiling some old problems, but it (v2.01) won't compile with the
>following lines:-
>
>unsigned char far *videobuf = (char far *)0xA0000000L;
>unsigned int far *videobufw = (int far *)0xA0000000L;
>
>as you can probably guess from the variable names, these are vital to the
>screen update, so please help me. I am probably just missing something
>really obvious, but I keep getting the error 'parse failed at line x : *'
>and so on. HELP PLEASE!
>

Try movedata function in libc:
     movedata (_my_ds(), buffer, _dos_ds, 0xa0000, size);

Ernesto R. Afonso
afonso AT inesca DOT inesca DOT pt