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   On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 11:57 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:   
   > > FAR and NEAR specifiers used with JMP   
   >    
   > 	The obscenity was these qualifiers making their way into C   
   > source   
   > code - try writing (or even reading) the declaration for a near   
   > pointer to a function returning a far pointer to an array of   
   > functions returning near pointers to integers.   
   >    
   > 	Then realise that you *alos* wanted this source code to be   
   > portable.   
      
   Which was why one used macros to conditionally compile code on MSDOG   
   and other platforms. And there were macros for far pointers, MK_FP()   
   for example. I think I have the remains of a hex disk editor somewhere   
   in my archives written in C with some assembler using Zortech C.    
      
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