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From: "Tom St Denis" <tomstdenis AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP reserves wrong int size
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 01:28:46 GMT
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"Pete Becker" <petebecker AT acm DOT org> wrote in message
news:3B37E46D DOT 18020A4B AT acm DOT org...
> Tom St Denis wrote:
> >
> > "Pete Becker" <petebecker AT acm DOT org> wrote in message
> > news:3B37D3FF DOT 6FF43454 AT acm DOT org...
> > > Stuart Golodetz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I think the problem is that he cannot read hexadecimal numbers yet
he is
> > > > trying to find errors with his compiler's generation of assembly
> > language
> > > > instructions
> > >
> > > Nope. Whether its 18 bytes or 24 bytes the issue is still the same:
it's
> > > a great deal more than 4 bytes.
> >
> > So what?  It can reserve 317 bytes if it wants.
> >
>
> Pay attention to context, please. I was responding to the assertion that
> he didn't know what he was talking about because he misread 0x18 as 18.

Righto, no worries mate.

Tom


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