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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is &a[NTHINGS] legal (and the shim)
Message-ID: <11330@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 15:10:46 GMT
References: <12074@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <11289@mimsy.UUCP> <4554@ico.ISC.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <11289@mimsy.UUCP> I noted that
>>If necessary, the compiler will put a ... shim after the array ....
  -- --------- [emphasis just now added]

In article <4554@ico.ISC.COM> rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes:
>Chris, is this really so?  I understand that &a[NTHINGS] should be valid,
>but I don't see why the shim is necessary.

It may not be.  Given your description of 80286 addressing, it is not
necessary there.  It might be required in others, particularly in other
segmented architectures.  I am not familiar enough with any others
(Burroughs, Honeywell, ...?) to say whether they would.
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