Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

[Timothy Miller]

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.

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