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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 68000 architecture
Message-ID: <4488@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 10 Jun 89 02:15:40 GMT
References: <1989May30.171335.473@utzoo.uucp> <658@geovision.UUCP> <40938@bbn.COM> <1989Jun8.142409.22589@cs.rochester.edu>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In <660@geovision.UUCP>, gd@geovision.UUCP (Gord Deinstadt) wrote:
| Actually, I don't mind the absolute addresses being signed; it's a
| fairly minor issue.  It's the signed offsets in base+offset mode that
| burn me up.

It's useful on occasion. For example, Amiga shared libraries have shared
data at positive offsets, and a jump table at negative offsets.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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