Walter Bright wrote:
Frits van Bommel wrote:
[1]: Hey, x86 technically has 6-byte pointers if you count segments as
part of the pointer (which would be mostly useless on currently
popular operating systems though).
It does, but I know of no compiler that supports that (C, C++, or any
other), and code that needs to deal with that tends to be assembler.
Shouldn’t most (ancient) 16-bit x86 compilers have support for “near”
and “far” pointers? Seems this should just require some updating of that
concept.
—Joel Salomon
