On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> 3. What about the idea of adding "char _far *" support to BCC? This would
> be relatively easy, and allow far pointer addressing while still keeping totally
> 8086 compatible, and running in small model. Initial support would include just
> pointer declaration and reference, not necesarily compares, etc.
This makes swapping and/or relocation difficult. One of the nice things
about the current stuff is that the binaries don't have to know or care
where they reside in memory and so can be moved about. Start playing with
far pointers and you begin to have problems.
Matthew.
