From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 3:54:32 PM UTC+8, Joe Monk wrote:   
      
   > > People don't define huge pointers in C just   
   > > because they really love seeing small offsets.   
   > >   
   > > They do it so that the compiler generates   
   > > the required code to add a large value   
   > > to a far pointer, for example 80k,   
   > > and the segment will be manipulated   
   > > to get it to reach that memory address 80k   
   > > further in absolute memory, as opposed   
   > > to getting the added value truncated   
   > > modulus 64k at most.   
      
   > Hardware doesnt give a shit about the C language.   
      
   Both the hardware, and myself, care about the code that   
   C compilers generate.   
      
   I'm happy to modify a C compiler if necessary. Or pay   
   someone else to do it, as I have been doing already.   
      
   That is my interest, and that is my question.   
      
   I don't care if Fortran or Turtle Graphics or some other   
   language has a perfectly valid reason for hardcoding   
   the number 4.   
      
   I care about C90, where I am willing to, and have,   
   inspected the assembler output of DOS C compilers.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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