Hello,

I'm assuming that the MIPS, for a.out format, by convention loads a
32bit constant using a pair of load/shift/add 16bit instructions.

My questions:

	Does it use this method to load both integer and address
	32bit constants?

	Is this convention used when the code is for an object
	file format that supports more then the text and data
	segment (eg coff, elf, ...)?

					Andrew

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REF: PowerPC and the `table-of-contents' segment.

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