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From: bmarsh@cod.NOSC.MIL (William C. Marsh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Finding the MCGA in Quick C 2.01
Message-ID: <2060@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 17 Aug 90 15:25:58 GMT
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Reply-To: bmarsh@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William C. Marsh)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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Lots of people post code that looks like:
>   unsigned char far *mem;
>
>   mem = 0xA000:0000;
>   *(mem + offset) = val;

Could we please stop using code that looks like this?  This is very unportable
to other 80x86 C compilers!  If you use the provided services in the compiler
(either MSC style or TurboC style) then there is a good chance it will work
elseware (Plus, it's easier to understand).

Examples (Using the above):

MSC:

	FP_SEG(mem) = 0xA000;
	FP_OFF(mem) = 0x0000;

TurboC:

	MK_FP(mem, 0xA000, 0x0000);

Bill
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