Yeah, segmented memory was such a headache. The large memory model that used "far" pointers broke some things that were taken for granted in C. Comparing poin

Yeah, segmented memory was such a headache. The large memory model that used "far" pointers broke some things that were taken for granted in C. Comparing pointers especially was an easy place to introduce difficult to find bugs. A given memory location could have multiple valid pointers, so you couldn't do an int compare. The 32-bit int 0x00000011 is smaller than 0x00010000 but 0000:0011 pointed to the byte after 0001:0000.