From: Pete Becker <petebecker AT acm DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: DJGPP reserves wrong int size
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:20:24 -0400
Organization: Dinkumware, Ltd
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Mark McIntyre wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:25:01 -0400, Pete Becker <petebecker AT acm DOT org>
> wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> and you think that the fact that he can't read hex somehow makes his
> other errors ok ?

No, and I made no such claim.

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Pete Becker
Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com)