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From: risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Pointer to Functions in Windows 3.0
Keywords: Pointer, Function, Far Pointer, Inter-segment function calls
Message-ID: <893@tuura.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 90 07:52:59 GMT
References: <1990Dec18.162922.16442@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Nokia Data Systems Oy
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mvishnu@csg.waterloo.edu (Meenan Vishnu) writes:

>I have difficulty in using pointers to functions in Windows 3.0.

>The pointer points to some invalid location after a while, even though
>its value has not changed.  I tried making the code segments FIXED and
>declaring all pointers to functions as FAR pointers:

>RET_VAL_TYPE (FAR *FUNC_POINTER) ( PARM_1_TYPE, PARM_2_TYPE );

Hi!

I'd declare the function EXPORTed in the program's linker definition file,
and subsequently use the MakeProcInstance()'d address as the value of the
pointer variable.

Terveisin: Risto Lankinen
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