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Article #955Re: Windows 3 segment/selector problems (Tech. Quest.)
From: Robert Goodearl
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 1990 19:55
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 1990 19:55
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In article <600@rodan.cs.utexas.edu> nickel@cs.utexas.edu (Jody P. Nickel) writes: >This isn't pretty but... And I'm sure Microsoft won't condone it. The pointer >returned will always be an XXXX:0000, where XXXX is the selector for the >first 64K of the memory. To get to the next 64K you need to increment the >selector by (I'm not %100 of the value) 8. The easiest way to do this is >using the _based keyword and a far *; If you _were_ going to manipulate the segment register yourself, you would add 16 NOT 8. HOWEVER, this is specifically recommended against. You CAN declare huge pointers without compiling entirely in the huge model. I believe this is much better than trying to manipulate segment registers yourself. -- Bob Goodearl -- goodearl@world.std.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!goodearl From: goodearl@world.std.com (Robert Goodearl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Windows 3 segment/selector problems (Tech. Quest.) Message-ID: <1990Dec21.195518.24580@world.std.com> Date: 21 Dec 90 19:55:18 GMT References: <1990Dec19.194631.22880@progress.com> <4563@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <600@rodan.cs.utexas.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die Lines: 13