From: rob@rjck.uucp (Robert J.C. Kyanko) Subject: Re: **** Protection **** Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 22:59:24 GMT
In article <1993Jun16.173325.15845@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>In other words Linux is generating tiny model 80386 programs. With
>segment registers you can address a selection of 32 bit address
>spaces - I wonder how long it will be till you need large model
>32 bit programs.
Actually, Watcom C (32-bit compiler for DOS, OS/2, & NT) already has
6 byte pointers, and they are called far pointers. It calls the 4
byte pointers near.
-- Yes, of course everything I say is my personal opinion!Robert J.C. Kyanko (rob@rjck.oau.org or rob@rjck.UUCP)