Re: [Etherboot-developers] Mknbi is the misbehaving when reloc'd

[Marc S. <el...@bu...>]

> For absolute references I just prefer pointer arithematic.  Segment
> loads are expensive.  But you very rarely if ever need absolute references.

Segment loads are expensive, references are cheap.  If you leave them
loaded then your only penalty is the segment prefix.  And since the
occurrence of absolute memory references is low, there is little
reason not to use segments except that most people aren't comfortable
with them.  %^)