[dmd-internals] OMF format Comment Record (0x88) issues

[Walter Bright]

On 2/14/2012 5:10 PM, Yao Gómez wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:36:56 -0600, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>> The 7 is for the 786 (!), just the next CPU. 'n' was originally the 'Windows 
>> NT' memory model, which was not in the original OMF spec.
>
> Thanks Walter! Just for the record... is this purely informational? or the 
> linker uses that info for something when blitting the final executable?
>

The linker uses it to give an error if you try mixing up code compiled for 
different memory models.