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Article #623294Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: Peter Flass
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:43
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:43
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Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:41:39 -0700 > Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> That trash went away a llooonnnggg time ago. Good to be reminded, though, >> I'd forgotten how truly horrible it used to be, even in C. > > Try writing the declaration for an array of far pointers to > functions returning near pointers to arrays of far pointers to integers. > > Now do it without typedefs :) > Actually, I think that would be clearer in assembler rather than use the kludges grafted onto C to get it to work. From what (little) I know all that "memory model" cr@p results from C assuming app pointers are one size. -- Pete
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