On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:23:06 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> >>Are they going to be segmented somehow
> >>so there's a "far jump" which takes us out of the current block?
> >
> >Nope. Jumps and jsrs take absolute addresses, so they can go anywhere.
> >Branches are relative so fixing them up to bounce between segments would be
> >tough, but we're not going to do that. :)
>
> So you'll actually jump to the absolute *machine* address? That way
> you'll need to patch them up at load time.
No, we don't. Jump destinations need to come from registers, not be
embedded as constants in the code. There's no need for fixup for them.
Dan
