Re: Ada and pointers

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

True enough - and I did think about that case. But when you consider it for
a minute and you realize that NNNN(segment) and NNNN(offset) are really no
different than NNNN-NNNN (some integer) - then it is still a one dimensional
array. Not unlike describing "the ones digit" and "the tens digit", etc.

Segment/Offset was invented to enable bringing older architectures forward
into larger address spaces and to possibly conserve some space and/or bus
cycles. Its still just an integer.

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"James Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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>
> On many machines memory is one big array. This is not exactly true for
> the old Intel machines that use a segmented memory model. In this case
> memory is more like an array of arrays than a simple array.
>