Re: Doubts about pointers

Nick Keighley wrote:
Simon <nos...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

Actually I'm mostly learning C from the book by H. Schildt, which is
excellent but it doesn't mention near and far pointers at all. I find
them quite confusing, so I think any book should explain them clearly.

As for being obsolete, the good thing is that Borland have released
Turbo-C for free now, so there's no need to worry about Micro$oft
license fees. Also C doesn't change much!

there are many free compilers for modern systems (no near and far).
If you are confined to Windows then there is a gcc based one (ming-w
(sp?)) lcc (no charge for non-commercial use) and even Microsoft
express versions.

Those are NOT 16 bit systems. They cannot be used to check code
executes correctly on a minimal system.

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