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On 2024-08-22, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:00:26 +0100
> Single Stage to Orbit 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.
A bloody pain in the ass, all of it. Forget the 640K barrier -
I was much more concerned with the 64K barrier. I wound up
writing pointer normalization routines and all sorts of other
hacks to handle large tables - and still keep it compatible
with *n*x. I only recently stripped out all that crap.
Good riddance.
--
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\ / | first society that wouldn't save
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