how to use far pointers to find system memory?

how to use far pointers to find system memory?

• Hossam Abdel Wahab

  I know of no way of using pointers to detected how much memory there is in a system (at least not on modern systems with virtual memory). A call to GetSystemInfo will use a pointer: does that count
  
  

• RaptorTech

  i mean to say this was a question in our programming assignment.
  the question was make a c++ program to find system memory using pointers
  
  
  

• Ren Yi

  What do you mean by 'far pointers' I haven't seen a far pointer since the last time I looked at the 16-bit compiler (shudders). I would use GetSystemInfo to find out this information:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/system_info_str.asp

  
  
  

• n8dagr8

  you should use GlobalMemoryStatus to get memory information, and also including the memory a system has.

  and far pointer is deprecated in win32, the M$ reserved it just for the compatible of the old codes.

  
  
  
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