C++ and Huge Ptrs?
I'm working on porting some Amiga code to Windows / Borland C++. The Amiga
has a nice flat memory model, where a pointer is 32 bits and reaches
everywhere, as Brian K. intended. 🙂
This means I've got lots of pointers to different types, integral types, my
own typedefs, etc. I'd like them to act 'huge'. The code is ANSI C now,
but with Borland, I've got the option of salting in a little C++, too. For
the time being, I'd like to continue to use the same code on both
platforms, with a few different headers of the same names.
A purely C approach to this would be to insert a #define IHUGE huge in a PC
header, then pepper the code with 'char IHUGE *' and #define IHUGE to be
nothing in the corresponding Amiga header.
As I understand it, there should be a way for me to re-define the '*'
operator so that it acts 'huge', right? I haven't done much C++ at all
beyond reading endless tutorials and overviews. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
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