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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 32K limits (was Re: System 8)
Message-ID: <11289@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 2 May 90 08:59:22 GMT
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In article <11288@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>do this for you, or even insert instructions to compute larger relative
>jumps, but both problems are fairly complex -- the latter one so much
>so that it turns the linker into something more like a peephole
>optimizer.  Rearranging code inside functions is not something a linker
>ought to be doing.

Actually, though, given five seconds more thought, it *could* insert
stub routines which lie within 32K of the calling code, and which
compute the true routine addresses and jump to them without perturbing
registers or condition codes, without rearranging code inside the
"offending" routines.  Hmm.  Maybe in 5.0....
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"When errors are found in old research, the relevant theories are
 re-examined.  When facts contradict theory, theory gets dumped.  Is
 that why the NLP people are unwilling to research their facts?"
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