"Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code

[Peter da Silva]

In article <3200 at geac.UUCP>, daveb at geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) writes:
>   Regrettably, some architectures prohibit this: (sr-1):ffff may
> mean <undefined segment>:ffff, and the loading of the selector into an
> selector register will cause a fault.

But nobody says you have to load the selector into a selector register
just to compute an address. Why should the address calculation hardware
be involved at all?
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