Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:53:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Marty Leisner <leisner@rochester.rr.com> Cc: Sam Hays <sam@ecofl.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C question Message-ID: <20000126105315.H43103@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200001260016.TAA02682@rochester.rr.com> References: <001701bf6777$92f0ffa0$297631cc@ecofl.com> <200001260016.TAA02682@rochester.rr.com>
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On Tuesday, 25 January 2000 at 19:16:39 -0500, Marty Leisner wrote: > "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 > > This has nothing to do with reasonable operating systems. ;-) It may do. Microsoft isn't the only vendor who has used this. > NEAR is a 16 bit dos pointer (same segment register) > FAR is a 32 bit pointer (segment/offset) It is on the 8086. Elsewhere it might be 32/64 bits. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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