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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Memory Models
Message-ID: <10812@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Aug 89 18:16:58 GMT
References: <10744@smoke.BRL.MIL> <319@hitech.ht.oz> <664@philmtl.philips.ca> <7555@cg-atla.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7555@cg-atla.UUCP> fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) writes:
>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!

There are such restrictions in almost any C environment; this is not
unique to *86-style architectures.  The compiler is responsible for
arranging proper alignment etc. for you.