DOS ain't dead - Signed Seeking System Operation

Signed Seeking System Operation - SSSO ? (DOSX)

posted by ecm , Düsseldorf, Germany, 05.05.2009, 17:52

> preventing stupid apps or compilers to seek below zero, while DOS is too
> stupid too to reject such no-goes

This is not a bug, it's a feature. Seeking "below zero" actually wraps around to a high position, so -1 means 4 GiB less one byte. It's all about "signed" and unsigned values.

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