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From: toma@killer.UUCP (Tom Armistead)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Turbo C and TSR's
Message-ID: <1041@killer.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 23:09:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 23:09:44 1987
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Well, I too have just recently received a copy of Turbo C, $55 bucks
from a discount sftwr house (Nothing but praise!!!)

One complaint:
    I don't like the way the inline assembly stuff works, you must
    have MASM (3.0 or greater) to use this feature. I'll be damned
    if I'm gonna pay $80 bucks for the worst assembler on the market...

    A86 all the way!!!

One question:
    Has anyone written any TSR's in Turbo C, they give you this
    nice function called keep() for terminatiing and staying
    resident, but, you must give keep() the number of paragraphs
    of memory used by you pgm and they don't document how to get
    that value. I called Borland's tech supp. and they don't really
    have an answer yet (they are working on it), however, I was told
    of a undoc'd global variable called _brkval that is supposed to point
    first byte of the stack, so (_brkval + _stklen) should point to the
    end of data???  Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't???
    Any suggestions???

Tom
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