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From: marc@ISO.3Com.COM (Marc Lavine)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ for Intel 286??
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Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 02:31:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 11 02:31:41 1987
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In article <4800003@uiucdcsm> bradley@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

>We're doing some OS development on a couple of 286-based machines and
>are interested in using C++.  The type of work we're doing, though, requires
>that we mix near and far pointers.  Unfortunately, the "near" and "far" 
>keywords are not standard C and cfront (correctly) flags them as errors.
>
>Does anybody have any suggestions on how we could get around this problem?

If you're developing under MS-DOS you can get Advantage C++ version
1.2 (I'm not sure if it's actually shipping yet; I'm a beta-tester)
from Lifeboat (really from Glockenspiel) which properly handles the
near and far keywords.  I think Glockenspiel is working on an OS/2
port of this compiler; they also have Unix versions, but I don't know
if they support the near and far extensions.  Lifeboat's phone number
is (800) 847-7078.  Oasys ((617) 491-4180) sells Glockenspiel's
compilers (including non-DOS versions) as Designer C++.

This is not an advertisment.  I'm just a satisfied customer.

	Marc Lavine
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