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From: wjr@ftp.COM (Bill Rust)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Memory Models
Message-ID: <712@ftp.COM>
Date: 25 Aug 89 15:40:40 GMT
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In article <2694@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> gregg@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (gregg.g.wonderly) writes:
>From article <664@philmtl.philips.ca>, by ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn):
>> 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.
>
>Funny, I have yet to see a compiler for the Intel 80x (x < 386) family that
>can increment a pointer through more than 64K.  Anyone else seen one?

Both TurboC and MSC have huge pointers that go through 64K boundaries. (Albeit,
I think that TC does it better at the penalty of longer execution times.) Since
those are the only two compilers that I have had much experience with in the
last couple of years, my guess would be that most of the others have some
support as well.






Bill Rust (wjr@ftp.com)