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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 'near' and 'far' keywords
Message-ID: <1988Apr24.000216.2525@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4811@chinet.UUCP> <146@obie.UUCP>, <53@lakart.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 88 00:02:16 GMT

> Yes, however that should be the job of the linker to spot which should be
> used - someting like the jbr pseudo instruction on the PDP-11: it created
> a short branch (+-127) if it could otherwise it created a long branch...

Note, though, that it was the assembler, not the linker, that did this on
the 11.  Doing it at link time is not impossible, but it is harder, and it's
effectively impossible when the compiler writer is working with an existing
linker with rigid specs.
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