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From: Thomas.Neumann@sunbrk.FidoNet.Org (Thomas Neumann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: HELP! Calling fopen() in DLL (a litt
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Date: 23 May 91 21:18:00 GMT
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Reply-To: Thomas_Neumann%p4.f5800.n241.z2@hippo.dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Neumann)


 > so this
 > near/far pointer stuff is new to me.  Nevertheless, my
 > understanding
 > is that with the Large Memory Model, everything is a
 > far pointer.

Yes, in large model every pointer is a far pointer, but be aware that this is 
not sufficent for pointer arithmetic like it is done on linear addressed 
machines !  The (far) pointers in large memory model do *not* behave correct on 
segment wraparounds. Just in case you didn't already know...

      bye, Thomas

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