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   Paul Edwards to wolfgang kern   
   Re: x64 address indexed by 32-bit addres   
   02 Feb 24 16:12:40   
   
   From: mutazilah@gmail.com   
      
   On 30/01/24 17:14, wolfgang kern wrote:   
   > you have to make RAX -1   
   > XOR RAX,RAX   
   > DEC RAX   
   > but what's wrong with: DEC instead of ADD -1   
      
   It is compiler-generated code. And not trivial   
   to change the compiler.   
      
   I managed to work around the problem by getting   
   it to make short/int/long 64-bit.   
      
   But then I replaced gcc itself with cc64 and have   
   a new solution.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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