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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code
Message-ID: <1430@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 8 Sep 88 02:02:01 GMT
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In article <3200@geac.UUCP>, daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) writes:
>   Regrettably, some architectures prohibit this: (sr-1):ffff may
> mean <undefined segment>:ffff, and the loading of the selector into an
> selector register will cause a fault.

But nobody says you have to load the selector into a selector register
just to compute an address. Why should the address calculation hardware
be involved at all?
-- 
Peter da Silva  `-_-'  Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
"Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?"            peter@ficc.uu.net