"Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code
Peter da Silva
peter at ficc.uu.net
Thu Sep 8 12:02:01 AEST 1988
In article <3200 at geac.UUCP>, daveb at geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) writes:
> Regrettably, some architectures prohibit this: (sr-1):ffff may
> mean <undefined segment>:ffff, and the loading of the selector into an
> selector register will cause a fault.
But nobody says you have to load the selector into a selector register
just to compute an address. Why should the address calculation hardware
be involved at all?
--
Peter da Silva `-_-' Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
"Have you hugged U your wolf today?" peter at ficc.uu.net
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