Re: Prederefed run cores

At 11:13 AM +0200 10/28/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> With the indirect register addressing all prederefed run cores 
> (Prederefed, CGP, Switch) are currently not functional, as these run 
> cores have absolute addresses in the prederefed code.
>
> I see two ways to fix it:
>
> 1) use frame pointer relative addressing:
>    + prederefed code is usable by different threads too
>    - ~4 times increase in code size of core_ops_*.{c,o} [1]
>
> 2) Re-prederef on function calls, if frame pointer differs
>    + no impact on code size
>    - needs precise code length of functions
>    - threads need distinct prederefed code
>    - possibly slower then 1)

Or 3) Toss the prederef stuff entirely.
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