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On 10/21/2010 8:39 PM, tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>     An "address" on a Wintel architecture is a segment and an offset.
> (remember memory models?)  So Janus Ada's System.Address is a segment
> and an offset.  PVOID is a C pointer, which is only an offset, the same as
> an Ada access value in Janus Ada.

In Win16, an address is a segment and an offset. Win32 has a flat memory 
model, where an address is simply a 32 bit offset into a virtual space.

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