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

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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
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