On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 12:43, Hong Zhang wrote: > > Are there any cases where a void * cannot be placed into an integer > > register? It seems like it shouldn't happen, especially since jump and > > jsr are supposed to take an integer register and they point to a > > host-machine-address... > > What register are you talking about? The 16-bit x86 has 16-bit integer > registers, but uses segment:offset as address. So the sizeof(void*) may > be 32-bit, plus you have to deal with far, near, huge, ... (total 6 types) > of pointers. > > Hong
Sorry: should be "size of parrot integer vs sizeof(void *)" Should have clarified that :) Brian
