Floating Point-How Important to Unix?

[Steven M. Schultz]

> From: John Holden <johnh at psychvax.psych.usyd.edu.au>
> 
> 	I think that you will find that the compiler and assember always
> generate relative addressing for subroutines and jumps. Any call to an

	Not quite 'always'.  In some cases yes, relative addressing is
	generated but quite frequently you'll see absolute addresses
	used.  Why?  I don't know ;)

	On some machines mode 3 is a bit faster than mode 6 but I doubt that
	was the reason.

	Steven Schultz


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