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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: Standard type for code pointers?
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On 2005-04-29 00:53, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <20050420162332.GB52948@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
>             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 :-)

Bingo!  Memory models was precicely the thing I had in mind :-)