Re: Limitations in FreeBSD

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Oct 29), Lars Gerhard Kuehl said:
> > Think about it for a second.  How big is a pointer?
> 
> The Intel architecture still supports segmented memory,
> so the effective maximum pointer size is 48 bit.

gcc doesn't handle segmented memory architectures, though, so you'll
have to write your own low-level memory copying operations if you want
to access other segments.

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        Dan Nelson
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