Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:16:39 -0500 From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@rochester.rr.com> To: "Sam Hays" <sam@ecofl.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, leisner@rochester.rr.com Subject: Re: C question Message-ID: <200001260016.TAA02682@rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:03:04 CST." <001701bf6777$92f0ffa0$297631cc@ecofl.com>
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This has nothing to do with reasonable operating systems. ;-)
NEAR is a 16 bit dos pointer (same segment register)
FAR is a 32 bit pointer (segment/offset)
This isn't an issue unless you use 8086 real mode.
Marty Leisner
"Sam Hays" <sam@ecofl.com> writes on Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:03:04 CST
> Out of curiosity,
> what is the difference between NEAR and FAR in C/C++? please don't
respond
> w/ a damned man page =] thanx
> -Sam
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