14 Nov
2003
14 Nov
'03
6:16 a.m.
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 06:14, Hans Franke wrote:
Excuse me if I sound rude, but we're either misunderstanding each other,
or you don't understand how Intel 8086 segmentation works.
Address normalization is a hardware problem, not software (though I'll
gladly blame Microsoft on general principles). Here's a good
description:
http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/asm/debug/Segments.html
Sorry, again incorrect, and if you figure out what segmentation means in
Intelland, small/medium/large/huge models make unfortunate sense.
and that's
about it. Don't you remember address normalization and
comparison woes?
That's rather a fault of Microsoft than Intel. Memory allocation schemes? Small/Medium/Large
Model
compiler "options"?
Now, that is something to blame on compiler developer.
True, it was initiated by Intel, but I can't blame the
CPU or the CPU designer for that. In fact, I never
understood what these 'models' are good for, since they
just define special cases within the only Model the
CPU knows.