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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Nathaniel Johnson <najohnso AT expert DOT cc DOT purdue DOT edu>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:03:20 +0000
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Subject: Re: Ram and embedded programming
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Nathaniel Johnson <najohnso AT expert DOT cc DOT purdue DOT edu> wrote:

>  I am writing a project for my company and we were using far pointers to
> access RAM beyound to 64k limit with far pointers... is there a way to do
> that with djgpp because i have found no far pointer commands as in borland
> c... 

DJGPP works in protected mode, as the limit for a segment in protected mode 
is 4Gb you don't need far pointers for 64Kb ;-)

> Also does anyone know if there is any advantages of using djgpp for
> embedded systems programming.

Depends on what embedded systems are you programming, if you have DOS and 
more than 1Mb djgpp is good.
DJGPP needs a DPMI host (CWSDPMI for example), heavilly use calls to DOS and 
uses the memory over the 1st Mb (under too, but with some limitations).

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