Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA06927 for pups-liszt; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:47:00 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au: major set sender to owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f Received: from moe.2bsd.com (0@MOE.2BSD.COM [206.139.202.200]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA06922 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:46:55 +1000 (EST) Received: (from sms@localhost) by moe.2bsd.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA19850; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:34:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Steven M. Schultz" Message-Id: <199804080434.VAA19850@moe.2bsd.com> To: johnh@psychvax.psych.usyd.edu.au, pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: Re: Floating Point-How Important to Unix? Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk > From: John Holden > > I think that you will find that the compiler and assember always > generate relative addressing for subroutines and jumps. Any call to an Not quite 'always'. In some cases yes, relative addressing is generated but quite frequently you'll see absolute addresses used. Why? I don't know ;) On some machines mode 3 is a bit faster than mode 6 but I doubt that was the reason. Steven Schultz