At 12:03 PM +1000 4/19/02, Andrew J Bromage wrote:
>G'day all.
>
>On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:09:59PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
>> I've applied this, with the exception of the branch and bsr ops. At
>> the moment, I agree--I can't see any case where "if" or "gte" needs
>> to have a variable target. (I can see it for branch, bsr, jump, and
>> jsr, as those are partially for subroutine dispatch, so no changes
>> there)
>
>OK, this raises a question: What _is_ the difference between branch and
>jump, or bsr and jsr? The answer I assumed was that jump/jsr were for
>variable targets and branch/bsr were for static targets. Is that wrong?
Yup. The branches are relative to the current PC, the jumps take
absolute addresses.
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