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Subject: Re: Standard type for code pointers?
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            Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
: > Is 'register_t' guaranteed to be wide enough?
: 
: AFAIK, no.  Portable C code cannot assume that a function pointer is
: small enough to fit in a single machine register.  Some obscure
: architecture may choose to represent function entry points with as
: many register as it needs.

You mean like medium model (64k data, larger code) 8086 :-)

Warner