From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,c9f2b97a84c48976 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-28 00:30:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.bc.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml,comp.lang.java.advocacy Subject: Re: Market pressures for more reliable software Organization: Canadian Mind Products Reply-To: roedy@mindprod.com Message-ID: References: <2_x_6.6808$e5.26279@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 07:30:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.76.128.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.bc.home.com 993713418 24.76.128.193 (Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:30:18 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:30:18 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9180 comp.lang.java.programmer:79285 comp.lang.pl1:1144 comp.lang.vrml:3927 comp.lang.java.advocacy:22128 Date: 2001-06-28T07:30:18+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:01:02 GMT, robin wrote or quoted : >> To load you had to adjust all the >> address references to account for where in RAM the program was loaded. > >No, only those words that had been specified as containing an absolute >address. you only had a 12 bit displacement, so you needed great many ADCONS (address constants), to fill your base registers with before you could get at anything. On load, all these had to be adjusted to account for where the program was actually loaded in RAM. For more detail, please look up the key words mentioned in this post in the Java Glossary at: http://mindprod.com/gloss.html -- Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products Custom computer programming since 1963. Ready to take on new work.