Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pwcmrd!skipnyc!atpal!tneff
From: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is &a[NTHINGS] legal
Message-ID: <164@atpal.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 16:00:42 GMT
References: <12074@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <10716@steinmetz.ge.com> <4023@killer.UUCP> <778@.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: President's Council on Astrology
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In article <778@.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>On the other hand I very much suspect that any useful 'C' compiler on the
>386 will blow off that segment stuff and just stick everything in one big
>segment...

Any *truly* useful 'C' compiler on the 386 will let the programmer
choose his own segmentation model like a big boy.  Accessing big
segments is a sine qua non, but forcibly limiting people to the "flat"
model would be fatal in the marketplace.  Fortunately nobody does this
or is planning to that I know of, so the subject need only come up in
net discussions. :-)


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