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From: "Frank J. Lhota" <FrankLho.NOSPAM@rcn.com>
Subject: Re: How to get the mouse position with JEWL?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:10:59 -0400
Date: 2010-10-22T06:10:59-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i9rnvu$e30$1@news.albasani.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i9qmfq$t12$1@speranza.aioe.org>

On 10/21/2010 8:39 PM, tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>     An "address" on a Wintel architecture is a segment and an offset.
> (remember memory models?)  So Janus Ada's System.Address is a segment
> and an offset.  PVOID is a C pointer, which is only an offset, the same as
> an Ada access value in Janus Ada.

In Win16, an address is a segment and an offset. Win32 has a flat memory 
model, where an address is simply a 32 bit offset into a virtual space.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-22 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-20  9:04 How to get the mouse position with JEWL? tolkamp
2010-10-20 11:42 ` Manuel Collado
2010-10-20 17:20   ` tolkamp
2010-10-20 22:22     ` Manuel Collado
2010-10-20 22:51       ` tmoran
2010-10-21  2:59         ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-21  4:08           ` tmoran
2010-10-21  7:31         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-21 19:10           ` tmoran
2010-10-21 19:38             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-22  0:39               ` tmoran
2010-10-22  7:35                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-22 10:10                 ` Frank J. Lhota [this message]
2010-10-21 15:23         ` tolkamp
2010-10-21 16:47           ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-21 17:09             ` tolkamp
2010-10-21 17:24               ` Niklas Holsti
2010-10-21 20:34         ` tolkamp
2010-10-22 13:55       ` tolkamp
2010-10-22 22:15         ` Manuel Collado
2010-10-23 15:26           ` tolkamp
2010-10-21 21:50 ` Manuel Collado
2010-10-22 10:40   ` tolkamp
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