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From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent Small Model Limitation
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.121855.29033@jrix.radig.de>
Date: 28 Apr 91 12:18:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: jrix.1991Apr28.121855.29033
References: <184@lip.hanse.de> <1991Apr28.072938.28568@jrix.radig.de>
Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany
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joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) writes:

>lipka@lip.hanse.de (Michael Lipka) writes:
>> Most work in porting software to Coherent has to do with the small
>> memory model limitation of the Coherent's c-compiler. When I bought
>> the OS I thought I could solve that problem getting gcc running,- no
>> chance with 16 bit pointers.

BTW:  The small model is not the limitation of the compiler it is the
limitation of whole Coherent. No segment can be larger that 64 k and
Data and Stack share the same segment. 

Joachim