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- From: Jesse_Michael@matrix.rain.com (Jesse Michael)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware
- Message-ID: <Jesse_Michael.02ts@matrix.rain.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 07:21:33 GMT
- Article-I.D.: matrix.Jesse_Michael.02ts
- Organization: The Matrix BBS
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- In a message dated Sat 3 Jan 93 14:20, Robart@agora.rain.com (joe Bob)
- wrote:
-
- >Well, there's nothing wrong about absolute addressing. Every C compiler
- >generates absolute addressing as well. But of course the linker generates
- >a relocation table that enables LoadSeg() to load the program to arbitrary
- >addresses.
-
- > True, but that's not what he's talking about here. Absolute addresses
- >like AbsExecBase or custom.bltcon0 certainly don't get relocated.
-
- Actually, what I meant were programs that are *hardcoded* to certain
- addresses.
-
- -Jesse
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