Benjamin> On Sat, Aug 14, 1999, Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch>
Benjamin> wrote:
>> This could certainly be done, it would be very `pretty' and very
>> very inefficient. It would basically end up looking like something
>> like UDI (*shiver*).
Benjamin> Yep, you are right. All the offset problems should be
Benjamin> calculated once at fixup time to avoid a function call for
Benjamin> accesses, I was probably too sleepy when I wrote this.
That wont do you any good at all, the method for accessing different
busses are often different from a set of memory offsets. Memory
offsets may be fine if we are talking multiple busses of the same
type, but some busses require specific handling of things like caches
etc.
Jes
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