On 2015-06-26, at 21:06, Steve Smith wrote:

> Out of curiosity, what is this 2gb boundary needed for (at assembly time)?  
> It would be a lot easier to calculate at run-time.
>  
It's harder at assembly time only because of an archaic assembler,
circumvented by deferring the calculation to run time.  It would
be better for referential transparency if the value appeared as
a self-defining term in the source.

-- gil

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