Subj : Re: far-pointer to a TTable-Object in a DataModule
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid>
Date : Tue Aug 26 2003 12:47 pm

Palmetzhofer Dietmar wrote:

>I am trying to make a call to a function that is sited in a dll outside my
>appilcation (the dll is linked statically). That function takes a *TADOTable
>as argument. Now, when attempting to access the tabel IŽll get an Access
>Violation. I think it is because the pointer is a near-pointer and I should
>use a far pointer (or a far-function-call). Can anyone help me to solve
>this?

TADOTable  far*MyTable = new(TADOTable);

Unless the dll is 32bits, then you just need to rewrite/recompile your
program to be 32bit also.  IIRC there are ways to convert 16bit
addressing to 32, but I wouldn't recommend doing that.

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