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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] switch from 32bit opensuse to 64bit
From:       "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas () telefonica ! net>
Date:       2014-03-14 11:58:15
Message-ID: 5322EED7.2030008 () telefonica ! net
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On 2014-03-14 08:48, Per Jessen wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-03-13 13:20, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>>> В Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:37:15 +0100 "Carlos E. R." <> пишет:


>>> You have no choice with pointers.
>>
>> My 86' assembler is very rusty, I worked more with the 68000. IIRC,
>> you could do "short jumps", in which the destination address was
>> relative to the current program counter.
>>
>> I never remember what model Linux uses, but don't we have short jumps?
> 
> The flat memory model.  Segment registers aren't used anymore, although
> FS and GS may still be used.

Then, no short or relative jumps? Say "jmp +125"?


(Maybe someone told me this before, but I don't remember. Sigh...)


-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)


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