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|    mutazilah@gmail.com to wolfgang kern    |
|    Re: PDOS/86    |
|    13 Jul 21 15:04:01    |
      From: muta...@gmail.com              On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 1:36:08 AM UTC+10, wolfgang kern wrote:              > >> but you may need at least two selectors per 64K block, one       > >> for code and one for data (some folks have third for stack)       >       > > Is there a reason I can't just have on selector for each       > > 64k block?              > you can have that, but either 64K code only or 64K data only.       > but application code usually need both within one 64 K block.              I see. That's not very nice. But given that the selectors       don't start from a neat 0 anyway, I guess pairs are OK.              The assembler generated from C code in the huge memory       model will not care. It just needs to know how much to       increment the "segment" (selector) whenever it crosses       a 64k boundary.              BFN. Paul.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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