"John Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:08:12AM -0600, Ben Combee wrote:
> >> Are you sure this applies to PRC tools.
> >
> > No... I've not analysed the output of PRC tools.
>
> I spent some time in my PalmSource talk last year looking at the
> assembly generated by prc-tools for various kinds of function calls
and
> function addresses (but only in C).  I thought you were there, Ben?!
:-)

I think I skipped the talk... probably not intentionally, but a side
effect of Palm scheduling too much good stuff for the last day.  I seem
to remember you conflicting with David Fedor's talk on Palm Debugger,
but we probably argued about it up at the lab the night before.  The
main things I remember about PalmSource 2000 were AutoPond swap
sessions, hacking on VChat way too late into the night, riding in the
AppForge Booster PT Cruiser, the not-quite-open-yet Hilton, and the
Omnisky marketing girls passing out the party cards (where is OS now? :)

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Anyway, its hard to tell who wins on the segment access.  PRC-Tools
generates less data to link segments together (good), but requires an
extra two instructions to add the offset and then do the indirect jump
(although the run overhead is just one extra instruction, since we do
two jumps).  The CW way uses more space on the heap, but it allows us to
alter instructions in the linker to support intersegment jumps without
having to know about it at compile time, since the code size doesn't
change.



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