From: "Andrew Davidson" <andrew AT lemure DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Generating Machine Code on the fly
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 18:47:18 -0000
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Kevin <krugman AT nospam DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
news:36d80527 DOT 13423287 AT 158 DOT 152 DOT 254 DOT 68...
>AFIK when you execute a DJGPP compiled program, the Processor is
>switched in to protected mode which gives you
>a 32 bit flat address space. this does mean that your machine code has
>to take this protected mode in to account.
>
>I'm a relative Newbie to DJGPP, but if I'm wrong, I'm sure we'll hear
>all about it :)
>
>Kevin.

Ahah! I thought the 32bit protected mode was simply 'emulated' by CWSDPMI.
So if I wanted to use a relative jump operation would I use the standard
machine code for jump relative, and how far could I jump, relative to the
current pc?