From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 22/08/2024 11:57, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:   
   > On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:00:26 +0100   
   > Single Stage to Orbit  wrote:   
   >   
   >> FAR and NEAR specifiers used with JMP   
   >   
   > 	The obscenity was these qualifiers making their way into C source   
   > code - try writing (or even reading) the declaration for a near pointer to a   
   > function returning a far pointer to an array of functions returning near   
   > pointers to integers.   
   >   
   > 	Then realise that you *also* wanted this source code to be portable.   
   >   
   I don't recall them ever appearing in C source. They are not part of the   
   C language.   
   AIR you could compile for 'small model' or 'large model'   
      
   And with the early compilers I used, no attempt was made to think about   
   whether a jump was near or far.   
      
   I think you got an assembler or  linker error if a target was 'out of range'   
      
      
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