Re: normalization of pointers...

Malcolm McLean wrote:

"Chris Dollin" <chris.dollin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
I didn't say "old compilers", either. I understood this /feature/
to be largely /obsolete/; perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps it depends
on the scope of the "largely".

Most people program PCs most of the time, and segmented architecture was
dumped years ago. However most chips are not CPUs in computer systems, and a
lot of them come with C compilers, and are fairly low power - you might have
4K of memory of which 256 bytes is RAM, for instance. Obviously you want to
squeeze RAM pointers into 8 bits.

I am more enlightened than I was; my workstation/PC bias was showing.

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