1993.11.01 18:52 "Re: Patch (for Windows, but general)", by Richard Minner

#ifdef _WINDOWS
               /*
                * 64K segment pointer arithmetic! Yuk!
                * Subtracting a value from a pointer can easily become
                * negative, but with a segment:offset pointer the
                * offset is unsigned and thus wraps around.
                *
                * So instead we'll compute the index to the location.
                */
               if ( (h -= disp) < 0 )
                   h += HSIZE;
               hp = &sp->enc_hashtab[h];
#else

>                if ((hp -= disp) < sp->enc_hashtab)    ###

hp += HSIZE;
#endif

Actually, your fix is not just a "windows/x83" fix, per se. Rather, the original code is not portable and should be changed regardless. ANSI/ISO C (and C++ when it arrives) only guarantees comparison of pointers within** the same (array) object. I would expect (hope) that the change would entail no performance penalty on any modern system.

** Ok, or one past the end.

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