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dereferencing far pointer in turboc

Hi,
I have a large memory allocated in my program and was trying to print
the values read (byte by byte) since the pointer in turboc is 2 bytes,
I used a char far pointer to the calculted address and dereferenced
it. But some how the value equivalent to deferenced value of the char
pointer instead of char far pointer.
E.g
val=*((char far *)calculated_ad dress);
is equivalent to
val=*((char *)calculated_ad dress);
for addresses which require more than 2 bytes.
So my question is how to dereference addresses more than 2 bytes?
I am stuck with turboc, please don't suggest changing to different
compiler, it is not a option at all.
Thanks
vishal
Nov 14 '05 #1
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vishal <vi*****@gmail. com> scribbled the following:
Hi,
I have a large memory allocated in my program and was trying to print
the values read (byte by byte) since the pointer in turboc is 2 bytes,
I used a char far pointer to the calculted address and dereferenced
it. But some how the value equivalent to deferenced value of the char
pointer instead of char far pointer.


Far pointers are not a C language concept. Please ask in a newsgroup
where Turbo C is topical.

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