Comments on 'A comparison of RISC architectures' by R.S. Piepho and W.S. Wu

For original article see ibid., vol.9, no.4, p.51-62, (Aug. 1989). The author points out that the relative addressing capability of a given architecture allows one to create position-independent code, that is, code (and data) that can be mapped anywhere in memory. The author notes that this capability is required to create shareable libraries, a feature that is available in the SunOS 4 and Unix System 5.4.<
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