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Buggifying critical core modules
Buggifying critical core modules
Posted Apr 7, 2008 8:00 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)In reply to: Buggifying critical core modules by quotemstr
Parent article: Who maintains dpkg?
So what? You do not need DOS to make a compiler output far/near-based pointers. What it requires is — I think — that the CPU is in real mode because that's where far/near pointers make most sense.
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