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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by beamatronic on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:13PM (#22120260)
None of that matters to someone learning how to implement a stack, a linked list, quick sort, etc.
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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by planteen on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:57PM (#22121946)
It does though, if you mix near and far pointers, you are going to be getting crashes. Pointer equality and comparison are non-trivial. Whereas on a modern 32-bit CPU you don't have any such distinction.
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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by beamatronic on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:22PM (#22132256)
Wow, how did you learn all this stuff?
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