Hi,

> The calling convention is identical.  The normal function call mechanism
> uses a relative branch instruction which has a 26 bit offset with the two
> LSBs forced to zero, hence you can only jump forwards or backwards up to 16
> MB (which leads to people saying that programs under 32 MB are not affected,
> which is not precisely correct).

Well, one might argue about the "precisely correct", but with a 26 bit offset
(that the 2 LSBs are forced to zero doesn't matter, since the PC must always
be word aligned) the PowerPC can reach a range of 32 MB below and 32 MB above
the current address.

Ciao,
Wolfgang
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