[fpc-devel] i8086 huge pointers

Max Nazhalov stein_nospam at mail.ru
Wed Apr 9 17:21:36 CEST 2014


Wednesday, April 9, 2014, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:
> I think only pointer arithmetic will need helpers (i.e. adding a pointer
> with an integer and pointer difference). As for the other routines in the
> RTL like (h)FillChar and (h)Move, they will have to be made to work with
> unnormalized huge pointers (in order to support 16-bit protected mode) and
> this way they will automatically work with normalized huge pointers as well.

Yes, it looks feasible for now.. (:

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WBR, Max.





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