Different pointer representations on the same machine

[Wonderly]

In article <3675 at arcturus> evil at arcturus.UUCP (Wade Guthrie) writes:
>I have seen references on the net to computers which have different
>representations for different types of pointers (even some computers
>which represent different types of pointers as different sizes).
>
>Could I have some examples...

The middle model of the typical 80x86 C compiler is a great example.
Typically, pointers to text are FAR (selector/segment plus offset) while
pointers to data are NEAR (just offset).  While there is not a model
(that I have seen) that is the other way, it is a conceivable alternative.

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