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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Types
Message-ID: <613@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 17:49:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.613
Posted: Tue Sep  1 17:49:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 09:37:14 EDT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Sounds like the UNIX pdp-11 assembler.

> [ description of how to make an assembler that handles long/short branches ]

But that doesn't resolve the problem of how to deal with near and far
cals to seperately compiled code. If the calling sequence of the 8086
was a little more logical, you could have 2 entry points for the routine:
near and far. The near would just push the segment and fall through to
the far. Unfortunately, segment is not the top of the stack in a far
call. See Kernighan's April column in Computer Language.
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