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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Memory Models
Message-ID: <7555@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 89 14:10:49 GMT
References: <10744@smoke.BRL.MIL> <319@hitech.ht.oz> <664@philmtl.philips.ca>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division
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In article <664@philmtl.philips.ca> ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn) writes:
>In article <319@hitech.ht.oz> clyde@hitech.ht.oz (Clyde Smith-Stubbs) writes:
. . .
>Hey, it's easy.  If you don't want to bother yourself with memory models,
>then always use the large or huge models and forget about it.



Well, even then it ain't transparent!  You will still get bitten by
the stupid segmented architecture, because there are, even in large
or huge model, restrictions on either the size of an array, or on
the size and/or alignment of the elements of that array!

See?  Even in Large/Huge model There Ain't No Free Lunch!


Fred