From: gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: I need HELP!
Date: 19 Feb 1997 01:03:54 GMT
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James Buckingham (James AT jambuck DOT demon DOT co DOT uk) wrote:

: unsigned char *video_buffer =
: 	(unsigned char *) (__djgpp_conventional_base + 0xA000000);

: in the code file.

Declare:

unsigned char *video_buffer;

at top level, then put somewhere in the initialisation:

video_buffer=(unsinged char *) (__djgpp_conventional_base() + 0xa0000);

: It keeps giving me the message:
: 	initializer element is not constant

: Could someone tell me how to sort this, or at least translate the error
: message into english for me.

It is English :) It means that when you're setting up an initial value
for a variable, e.g.

int a=3;

the value must be a constant which can be evaluated at compile-time.
__djgpp_conventional_base isn't constant.

-- 
George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.