Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!mmdf From: ZQ0018%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Kai Henningsen) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: klib88.s strangenesses Message-ID: <5325@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 11 Nov 88 10:06:37 GMT Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Lines: 20 In his article , Andy Tannenbaum writes: >In article broman@nosc.mil writes: >>While converting the v1.3 klib88.s into a Turbo-C klib88.c, I came upon some >>mysteries that someone may be able to explain. (...) >>5. Was it just an oversight that segment:offset pairs are always >>passed as arguments in the order (segment, offset). >In essence, yes. Probably should be fixed, except that it had better be >fixed everywhere of bad things happen. > >Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) Consider doing a (maybe slight) name change also, then everybody *should* notice it (even if by an asld error msg). Kai Henningsen zq0018 @ dmswwu1a . bitnet (Or what is YOUR path?)