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From: edler@cmcl2.UUCP (Jan Edler)
Newsgroups: net.arch,net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: M680*0 "small model"
Message-ID: <485@cmcl2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 21:23:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 19 21:23:11 1985
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Organization: New York University
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In article <587@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> jnw@mcnc.UUCP (John White) writes:
>Since several files can be compiled
>seperatly and then linked together, there is no way the compiler can
>know what data can be fit into the area of memory accessed by "short"
>instructions. Only the linker can know where each piece of data will be put.

I think the article on page 591 of the proceedings of the June 1985
USENIX conference describe an attempt to solve this problem.

	Jan Edler
	New York University
	cmcl2!edler
	edler@nyu