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From: dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C and Intel 386
Message-ID: <205@westmark.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 09:07:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: westmark.205
Posted: Sun Oct 11 09:07:47 1987
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In article <9724@brl-adm.ARPA>, PLei.ES@Xerox.COM writes:
> 
> We are currently working with the Intel C386 Compiler. Has anyone using
> this compiler ever tried passing a far procedure as a parameter to
> another routine? A far procedure is defined as one that resides in a
> different segment. 
> 
Sorry, I'm not using the Intel compiler, but other 80xx6 compilers
seem to handle this correctly only if the called function declares
the formal parameter as a pointer to far function.  (Note that this
declaration is easy to confuse with a far pointer to function.)
-- 
Dave Levenson
Westmark, Inc.		A node for news.
Warren, NJ USA
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