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Q66651: _far16 Generated by Mistake for Huge with /Zg

Article: Q66651
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 6.00   | 6.00
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | buglist6.00 fixlist6.00a | mspl13_c
Last Modified: 1-NOV-1990

If the /Zg switch is used with the Microsoft C version 6.00 compiler,
it will erroneously generate _far16 where huge is required.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem with the C version 6.00
compiler. This problem has been corrected in the version 6.00a
maintenance release.

The /Zg switch causes the compiler to generate prototypes for all the
functions in the module. If a function is declared as

   char huge * foo( char huge *){}

the compiler will generate the following prototype:

   char _far16 * foo (char _far16 *);

Upon subsequent compiling with the generated prototype, the compiler
will fail with various syntax errors because _far16 is an unknown
keyword.

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