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Wrapping of offset pointers in this manner is usually an (documented) feature not a bug. At least on DOS compilers, where this is also usually configurable (thi
by dfox 9y ago
Wrapping of offset pointers in this manner is usually an (documented) feature not a bug. At least on DOS compilers, where this is also usually configurable (this is part of what "C memory model" option of 16bit DOS C compilers is about).
- 8fingerlouie 9y agoThe company closed the Danish branch in 2003, so it's been 15 years, and i can't remember the compiler options we used, but we looked deeply into the problem back then, and it was acknowledged as a compiler error (at the time). the offset pointer problem however was the least troublesome. The problem with disappearing arguments took a long time, and a lauterbach hardware debugger to figure out :)