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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Far Pointers (was Re: Where is the paralell port???)
Message-ID: <15787@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 88 00:47:44 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante)
Organization: malkaryotic
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Turbo C manipulates far pointers with the following 3 "functions"
(actually macros):

void far *MK_FP(unsigned segment, unsigned offset);	/* makes
							   far pointers */
unsigned FP_OFF(void far *far_pointer);	/* returns offset */
unsigned FP_SEG(void far *far_pointer);	/* returns segment */


Just for laughs, here's the actual definition of the MK_FP macro, from
<dos.h> :

#define MK_FP(seg,ofs)	((void far *) \
			   (((unsigned long)(seg) << 16) | (unsigned)(ofs)))

So Holzmann's "long-integer" representation of a far pointer would be
acceptable to Turbo C.  Aren't you glad you asked ?  :-)