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- From: wally@Auspex.COM (Wally Bass)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Microsoft library access from Turbo C?
- Message-ID: <16599@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 22:42:11 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.171455.215@kenyon.edu> <1993Jan22.175232.18997@progress.com> <1993Jan23.061158.1684@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan23.061158.1684@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu>
- gcouger@olesun.okstate.edu (Gordon Couger) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.175232.18997@progress.com>
- leary@progress.COM (Jim Leary) writes:
- >>sullivan@kenyon.edu writes:
- >>
- >>>I have some DOS hardware with a software library to use it written for
- >>>Microsoft C (ver 4.00). Is there a way to link code I write in Turbo C++ (ver
- >>>2.00, I think) to this library?
- >>
- >
- >I have tried it and it worked for me, first rattle out of the box. I didn't
- >have to change a thing.
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- But, consider differences in the memory models, and whether that is likely
- to have an impact. In particular, microsoft does (or did) assume and require
- that DS=SS, as I recall, for all of their standard memory models, whereas
- that generally was not true for at least the early Borland compilers.
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- Wally Bass
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