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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:41:59 +0300

> To avoid getting into an infinite loop (btw, does you jit avoid
> infinite loops in the generated code?) I'll restate what I think are
> an external jit's advantages and then stop harping on the subject:

Only forward branching is allowed in BPF code.