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From: vpsingha@athena.mit.edu (Vivek P. Singhal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: multiple SEGMENTS, i need to split up my code
Keywords: segments
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Date: 13 Dec 88 08:43:08 GMT
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In article <14484@genrad.UUCP> cig@genrad.UUCP (Charles I. Ganimian Jr.) writes:
>	I need to use sprintf, atoi, etc and these i cannot modify 
>	in a rational manner so that they are far functions. What can 
>	I do ... I want to stay with the small model and I am at
>	a point where I can't move forward until I can fix this

According to Petzold (on page 292):
"As you can see, this mixed-model approach is more of a headache than
the medium-model approach.  It requires that you figure out which
functions must be declared far and which can be near.  It has an
additional problem:  You can call normal C library routines from only
one segment -- the segment that gets the default segment name _TEXT
when you compile without the -NT switch."

Consequently, its seems that you can use the the standard library
functions only from the main object file when using the mixed memory
model.  You might be able to use the medium model and call the library
functions from anywhere, but I haven't tried it.

Vivek
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