In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/23/2006
at 09:13 AM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I agree it's a shortcoming. FWIW, My impression has always been that
>the hardware architects thought the base register/displacement scheme
>was their "answer to" or "version of" hardware relocation.
Indeed, but they forgot the need to adjust address constants and
variables when moving things around. They should have given the
software types more say in the design.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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