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From: geoff@callan.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
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Subject: Re: pointer -> long conversion
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Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 08:10:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 08:10:15 1984
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Interestingly enough, the 68000 considers word-length pointers to be signed
in certain contexts.  The "absolute short" addressing mode sign-extends the
16-bit address.  Perhaps this is intended for use with a split
user/system address space like on the Vax?
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	Geoff Kuenning
	Callan Data Systems
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