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Segmented far pointer allocation in 16bit x86 MS-DOS real mode

I'm trying to get my head around programming real mode MS-DOS in C. Using some old books on game programming as a starting point. The source code in the book is written for Microsoft C, but I'm trying...
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IronPug

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dos

x86-16

real-mode

watcom

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It appears your OpenWatcom C compiler is defaulting to using C89. In C89 variable declarations must be at the beginning of a block scope. In your case all your code and data is at function scope, so t...
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