From: lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu (Lonnie McCullough)
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Subject: Re: far pointers
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 08:00:18 GMT
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>And one other thing. My friend uses a Watcom compiler and guess how he uses
>video mem. 
>
>char *p=(char *)0xA0000; *(p+something)=color. 
>
>thats it. No farptr functions or anything. how does watcom manage this. I
>thought maybe watcom was always in nearptr mode, but if so, wont the base
>address need to e recalculated or something? 
I think that Watcom makes the memory under the 1MB mark totally
accesible to the program.  I'm not sure of the method that is used but
it must not wreak havoc with pointers if everybody uses it.


Lonnie McCullough
lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu