puttextxy( int x, int y, char far *const );

[venkatesh.k.desai5]

Hi,
Is thr any way to make puttextxy( int x, int y, char far *const );
as portable? plz give me the code.

Take care
Venky.

 

[Richard Heathfield]

(e-mail address removed) said:

Hi,
Is thr any way to make puttextxy( int x, int y, char far *const );
as portable?

Yes. Removing the word 'far' makes the prototype, at least, portable.

Whether the underlying function can be made portable will depend on what it
does.

 

[venkatesh.k.desai5]

Yeah. But I want it to be portable with 'far'

 

[Vladimir Oka]

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Yeah. But I want it to be portable with 'far'

First, please read <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/>, and the link in
my sig.

Second, with `far` you cannot make it portable, since `far` is not part
of Standard C.

 

[Michael Brennan]

Yeah. But I want it to be portable with 'far'

Well, you can't. Far pointers is only for DOS, AFAIK.

And please learn to quote.

/Michael

 

[pemo]

Yeah. But I want it to be portable with 'far'

#define far

puttextxy( int x, int y, char far *const );

#undef far

 

[CBFalconer]

Is thr any way to make puttextxy( int x, int y, char far *const );
as portable? plz give me the code.

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[Malcolm]

Hi,
Is thr any way to make puttextxy( int x, int y, char far *const );
as portable? plz give me the code.

No.
There's no portable way of treating the screen as a raster of fixed-width
text characters.
The "far" is also a platform specific way of dividing up memory.