Memory Models

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <7555 at cg-atla.UUCP> fredex at cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) writes:
>Well, even then it ain't transparent!  You will still get bitten by
>the stupid segmented architecture, because there are, even in large
>or huge model, restrictions on either the size of an array, or on
>the size and/or alignment of the elements of that array!

There are such restrictions in almost any C environment; this is not
unique to *86-style architectures.  The compiler is responsible for
arranging proper alignment etc. for you.