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Re: Snes9x (PowerUP) kicks Warpsnes ass! (NOT)

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On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 06:12:38 -0800 (PST)
Betsy Hendricks <goodnameminecraft@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, January 29, 1999 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Emmanuel Lesueur wrote:
> > Deok-Min Yun (dm...@rocketmail.com.au) wrote:
> > : Emmanuel Lesueur <les...@desargues.univ-lyon1.fr> wrote:
> > : : What makes ELF files bigger is relocation data. The hunk format
> > : : has a more compact (but less powerful) way to store them.
> > : Oops, I forgot that one. But relocation data can't be that big, can it?
> > Relocation data with ELF is 12 bytes per relocation, and on ppc
> > they are often used by pair (2 relocations per access to a
> > global variable). Hunk format uses 4 bytes per relocation,
> > and since it doesn't support split-relocations, they are
> > not much used for ppc. Programs using hunk format use relative 
> > addressing and a table of contents instead, which is slower but 
> > leads to smaller files. The actual size of the code loaded
> > in memory is more or less the same in both cases.
> > --
> > Emmanuel Lesueur - les...@desargues.univ-lyon1.fr
> hm?

*Sigh* If people only would realize that replying to messages that are 23 years old isn't particulary usefull. In this case it also lacks substance.

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/ Pinku

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