Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code
Message-ID: <1988Sep15.145026.20325@ateng.uucp>
Date: 15 Sep 88 18:50:23 GMT
References: <867@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <3200@geac.UUCP> <1430@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
>But nobody says you have to load the selector into a selector register
>just to compute an address.

More to the point:  The dpANS says you (the implementor) are _allowed_ to
load the selector into a selector register when computing the address.  To
do otherwise could slow down register-intensive pointer manipulation.

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Chip Salzenberg                <chip@ateng.uu.net> or <uunet!ateng!chip>
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