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Re: Differing pointer sizes (e.g near/far)

From: Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>
To: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:56:34 -0800
Subject: Re: Differing pointer sizes (e.g near/far)
References: <20031020024300.GA5177@grante.dsl.visi.com>

Grant Edwards wrote:

It appears that GCC requires all pointers to be the same size.
Is that correct?

Yes.

There's no way to have pointers to text be a different size
than pointers to stack/bss/data?

Not easily, but pointers to text are rare. The only way to get a pointer to text is from taking the address of a function or a label, and you may be able to give these cases special treatment. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com

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- Differing pointer sizes (e.g near/far)
  - From: Grant Edwards

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