Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 12:19:09 EST


Timothy Miller wrote:

I think we were talking about absolute branches when referring to "near branches". For absolute branches, having a 32-bit address restricts you to the lower 4G of the address space.


You're talking about *indirect* near branches? Those are the only absolute near branches which exist...

-hpa
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