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From: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emulator Mechanics (sorry long post)
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Date: 6 Mar 91 02:15:20 GMT
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...hating to throw a monkeywrench in a thoroughly wonderful and thought
provoking discussion, but....

I love the idea of a pre-compiler for emulators and I too thought (and
maybe still do think) it possible, but consider this BIG problem:

What if you have a modular program that swaps parts of itself in
and out AND does direct jumps to different portions of the swapped
code?  How on earth is your compiler going to know what to put in
the place of that direct jump??

                                                            Kurt
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