Far pointer problem resolved

id for use with uunet/usenet jbayer at ispi.UUCP
Sat Oct 15 01:29:36 AEST 1988


My thanks to the following people who replied to my question about
far pointers:

Ariel A. Aloni		att!ctsmain!raphel!ariel
Mark @			...!gatech!ncrats!iccdev!mark
John Owens		john at jetson.UPMA.MD.US		uunet!jetson!john
Jayen Vaghani		{uunet,ukc,ubc-cs,mcvax}!munnari.oz!jayen
Mike Howard		uunet!milhow1!how
Ragnar Paulson 		...utzoo!lsuc!dvlmarv!tsgfred!ragnar
Dr. T. Andrews		...!bikini.cis.ufl.edu!ki4pv!cdis-1!tanner  ...!bpa!cdin-1!cdis-1!tanner


For those who asked why I was using far pointers, my program is using
Unix V shared memory.  On Xenix 286, this type of shared memory is
accessed by far pointers.

The solution which was suggested by most of the above people was:

	return ( (struct abc far *)&ptr[x] ) ;

This eliminated the warning messages.  A few people also suggested 
simply ignoring the warnings.  It appeared that the code was being 
generated correctly.   I was concerned since this code has to be portable
between different machines, and I do not like warning messages at all.

Again, thanks to all of you.

Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.



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