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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