From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,86ec22e070e319c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: How do I get this to work?? Date: 1999/01/07 Message-ID: <771aoa$rq3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 429625318 References: <76s0dp$1v4$1@nntp3.uunet.ca> <76tbvv$ba5$1@nntp3.uunet.ca> <36926c54.2583014@news.pacbell.net> <76uvjt$o0f$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3693091d.42725914@news.pacbell.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x15.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 129.37.115.171 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Jan 07 03:47:22 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3693091d.42725914@news.pacbell.net>, tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote: > And how could you possibly make an embedded 32 bit > program which actually used segments as intended, with a > compiler that believed there was only one segment? > Clearly such a compiler would truly be broken. Tom, it really sounds like you are still living in a 286 world here. All the real time executives I am familiar with in the modern ia32 world operate with a single segment model. Indeed the whole segmentation stuff in the ia32 is a bit of a relic at this stage (Henderson in reviewing my book on Microprocessors wrote a note that said "does anyone use this segment junk" or words to that effect :-) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own