Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtunx!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!eris!mwm From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'm in love with my car) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Another question on the 80286- er, 68000 memory models Message-ID: <10636@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 7 Jun 88 09:27:04 GMT References: <8805182223.AA20918@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <2653@louie.udel.EDU> <10507@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <2085@sugar.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 39 In article <2085@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: <> You see, the problems tend to be with globally allocated data, <> whose address isn't known until link time. So what's an optimiser <> supposed to do? <. (there's your beard, Peter!) <> On the other hand, subroutine jumps could be to routines that you <> don't have an address for yet (they may not even have been written yet <> :-). So once again, the optimiser is missing some important data. <