From: "Andrew Betts" <andy AT jasp DOT com>
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c++,comp.arch.embedded,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Specifing the location of a function
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:02:26 -0000
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"John Fine" <johnfine AT erols DOT com> wrote in message
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> Andrew Betts wrote:
>
> > Specifing the location of a function / dynamic loading for .COM
>
>   I don't understand why you want to.  Memory is cheap, CPU's have
> supported 32-bit addressing for a long time.  Why would you want to
> stretch the limits of tiny model programming?
>

Wasn't sure if this question was rhetorical or not, but I will answer it
anyway.

Quite simply the people who supply the hardware I'm using only provide
libraries for the tiny memory model.

What can you do?

(by the way, that WAS rhetorical)