Could we get a LP64 version identifier?

[Walter Bright]

Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Frits van Bommel wrote:
>>> [1]: Hey, x86 technically has 6-byte pointers if you count segments 
>>> as part of the pointer (which would be mostly useless on currently 
>>> popular operating systems though).
>>
>> It does, but I know of no compiler that supports that (C, C++, or any 
>> other), and code that needs to deal with that tends to be assembler.
> 
> Shouldn’t most (ancient) 16-bit x86 compilers have support for “near” 
> and “far” pointers? Seems this should just require some updating of that 
> concept.

The 16 bit compilers (like Digital Mars C++ for DOS) do have such 
support. Just not the 32 bit ones (which the 6 byte pointers would be). 
It could be added to DMC for 32 bits, but there is no point to it 
because there's no demand for it.

DMC++ still supports 16 bit targets, but frankly, about 1 person a year 
gets it for that purpose. 16 bits is dead, dead, dead.