Walter Bright wrote: > The 16 bit compilers (like Digital Mars C++ for DOS) do have such > support. Just not the 32 bit ones (which the 6 byte pointers would be). > It could be added to DMC for 32 bits, but there is no point to it > because there's no demand for it.
FWIW, Open Watcom supports far (48 bit) pointers in 32 bit code. However, since the feature sees almost no use it is probably buggy. > DMC++ still supports 16 bit targets, but frankly, about 1 person a year > gets it for that purpose. 16 bits is dead, dead, dead. There is a community of 16 bit DOS users out there. Some of those folks are using 16 bit x86 devices in small embedded systems. It's a small community to be sure, but not zero sized. Peter
