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On 04/19/2012 09:49 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Ah, apparently it is possible to generate relocations relative to the
> start of the current section.
> 

Nevermind... I'm wrong.  The assembler will generate them but the linker
will produce garbage.

So I think using PC-relative relocations and have the postprocessor (or
the sort in the module loader) convert them to section-relative makes
sense...

	-hpa