Casting to far proc ptr

[Rahul Dhesi]

(Intel- and Turbo C-specific stuff follows.)

In <2734 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen
Jr) writes:

>  I need to pass to address of a procedure to a called function. The
>procedure is near static, and I need to cast to far, or assign the
>address to a far ptr.

Even if you can call the function, I think you will have problems,
because it will have been compiled to do a near return.  It will pop 16
bits off the stack and jump there.  (Had Intel reversed the order in
which segment and offset are pushed on the stack in a far call, it
would have been possible to define a far function that could be called
from both near and far.)

Just finding the address of the function shouldn't be difficult,
though.

     far_address = MK_FP(_CS, func);   /* not tested */
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