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|    mutazilah@gmail.com to Joe Monk    |
|    Re: PDOS/86    |
|    23 Aug 21 17:50:22    |
      From: muta...@gmail.com              On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 3:34:40 AM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:              > > Its not possible. RX instruction format only allows 12 bits for the       displacement... to keep things in a 4K page :)       > >       > > You can write single CSECT programs today. Nothing stopping that.       > >       > RXY is the instruction format for 20-bit displacements...              Which allows a 1 MiB CSECT, right?              If you exceed 1 MiB, what do you do? New base       registers, same as you would do for RX instructions?              Regardless, the idea would be to have a register       dedicated to a less than 1 MiB data section, right?              And what executable formats do this?              Thanks. Paul.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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