ix264@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (ix264) (08/06/86)
I'd like to offer my profound thanks to all of the people
who responded to my query last week about large model
compilation for the 8086 under SCO Xenix. I really am amazed at
the helpfulness of the net community. You are all wonderful.
I'm posting this both to share the outcome and because I can't
send mail on ARPA to thank those who wrote me that way.
My special thanks to the gentleman from NOSC whose name
I've carelessly forgotten who was so kind as to phone me when he
couldn't mail a reply to me.
People were right in politely telling me I had
misunderstood the limitations of the Microsoft compiler supplied
as part of SCO Xenix. It does not produce large model code
running on the 8086 under Xenix, but it does produce large model
code which runs on the 8086 under MS-DOS. One only needs to be
careful to remember that the size of a pointer is larger than the
size of an integer, so that, for example, one must explicitly
declare
char *malloc();
My apologies to the folks at SCO and MS if my earlier posting
misrepresented your products on the net. (N.B.: This apology was
not motivated by complaints from either company. They haven't
written me; I just want to set the record straight.)
I offered dinner in my original posting to anyone who could
help me with this problem. I'd be happy to meet and feed any of the
people who took the time to write me, should they ever be in Ann
Arbor, where I am moving later this week. Thanks again, and do
keep up this wonderful community.
Tim McLarnan
Math Dept., UC San Diego
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