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From: darak@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (dara khani)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Huge pointers and large bitmaps (512x512/8)
Message-ID: <1991May22.151149.8892@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
Date: 22 May 91 15:11:49 GMT
Sender: darak@iplmail (dara khani)
Organization: Martin Marietta
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Petzold says that you should use huge pointer for data > 64k, otherwise
use far pointers.  
My question:
 I have a huge pointer to an image (512x512/8), and I want to 
create a DIBitmap of it.  I type cast the huge pointer variable to a 
LPSTR and pass it to the createDIB.... function.
What puzzles me is why a correct bitmap is created when a LPSTR pointer is 
not suppose to go over 64k.

I am using BC++ and small memory model (386).

thanks in advance,

			DaRa

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Dara T. Khani                          Email: darak@iplmail.orl.mmc.com   *
Martin Marietta Electronic Systems     Tel: 407-356-8439                  *
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