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From: CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A C compiler that *works* ?
Message-ID: <90098.162420CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 90 20:24:20 GMT
References: <3119@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <3119@castle.ed.ac.uk>, djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy) says:
>
>After having a long fight with TC 2.0 about allocating a block of memory
>128K long, and just about chucking the damned thing out of the window,
>I am wondering if there is a PC C compiler anywhere that actually does work
>and will let me do this ?
>
>The code has to work on an 8086, so no '386 specific stuff will be suitable,
>unfortunately. If I can't get it to work I'll use assembler but I'd really
>rather not do this.

If it must run on an 8086, just use the Huge memory model.  The other five
memory models will not support >64K blocks of data because the 8086 itself
will not.  The Huge memory model generates extra code to get around this,
but only at the price of speed.


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