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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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...


I don't know.  I seem to vaguely recall seeing some disassembled x86 
code which was a branch which had an absolute address.  Maybe I remember 
incorrectly.