separate assembly

Henry Cejtin henry@sourcelight.com
Sat, 12 Aug 2000 13:07:05 -0500


You  don't  want  to be quite so crude in splitting the program into separate
assembler source files.  As an example, conditional jumps to  near  locations
only  take  2  bytes  while to far locations they take 6 bytes.  For jumps to
locations in other files the assembler will have to use the long form.   Thus
you  are pretty much forced to do some kind of intelligent splitting (perhaps
at a top-level function boundary).