rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) (09/05/88)
The example everybody was citing when it came to proving that Numerical Recipes was non-portable code (and yes, you have convinced me, never worry about that) was the Intel 80*86. Now I was borrowing a friends Turbo-C manual the other day (for a completely different reason) and looked up pointers, just to see how bad it was (Ugh!). I was quite surprised to find, though, that the manual seems to claim that NR code would work on a PC. While they are not quite clear as to what happens with near pointers, they state far pointers wrap around both ways, which would make the code work, and huge pointers essentially implement linear memory, so that'd work as well. Am I missing something, or was the 80*86 an invalid counterexample? Rob Carriere My middle name is Curious.