XPost: alt.folklore.computers, openwatcom.users.c_cpp   
   From: Peter@Iron-Spring.com   
      
   On 11/3/25 13:24, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   > On 11/2/2025 2:20 PM, Peter Flass wrote:   
   >> What happened here?? I just noticed that a lot of these posts are from   
   >> 2010. Did some news server just barf?   
   >>   
   >> On 3/23/10 14:42, Peter Flass wrote:   
   >>> Branimir Maksimovic wrote:   
   >>>> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:51:18 -0400   
   >>>> Peter Flass  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:   
   >>>>>> Returning to what we were talking about before the silly diversion,   
   >>>>>> I should point out that 32-bit applications programming where the   
   >>>>>> target is extended DOS or 32-bit Win16 (with OpenWatcom's extender)   
   >>>>>> will also occasionally employ 16:32 far pointers of course.  But as   
   >>>>>> I said before, regular 32-bit OS/2 or Win32 applications   
   >>>>>> programming generally does not, since those both use the Tiny   
   >>>>>> memory model,   
   >>>>> Flat memory model.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Problem with standard C and C++ is that they assume flat memory   
   >>>> model.   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm not a C expert, perhaps you're a denizen of comp.lang.c, but as   
   >>> far as I know there's nothing in the C standard that assumes anything   
   >>> about pointers, except that they have to be the same size as int, so   
   >>> for 16:32 pointers I guess you'd need 64-bit ints.   
   >>>   
   >>> As far as implementations are concerned, both Watcom and IBM VA C++   
   >>> support segmented memory models.  These are the ones I'm aware of,   
   >>> there are probably more.   
   >   
   > I asked Ray Banana of E-S about the openwatcom.* groups and he   
   > resurrected them with all of their very old postings.   
   >   
   > Lynn   
   >   
      
   Oh, OK. Also everything that was X-posted. No worries.   
      
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