Subj : Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing
To   : Ahem A Rivet's Shot
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Fri Aug 23 2024 10:17:56

On 22/08/2024 11:57, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:00:26 +0100
> Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.eu> wrote:
>
>> FAR and NEAR specifiers used with JMP
>
> 	The obscenity was these qualifiers making their way into C source
> code - try writing (or even reading) the declaration for a near pointer to a
> function returning a far pointer to an array of functions returning near
> pointers to integers.
>
> 	Then realise that you *also* wanted this source code to be portable.
>
I don't recall them ever appearing in C source. They are not part of the
C language.
AIR you could compile for 'small model' or 'large model'

And with the early compilers I used, no attempt was made to think about
whether a jump was near or far.

I think you got an assembler or  linker error if a target was 'out of range'


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