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On May 30, 2011 9:47 PM, "Jeff Schultz" <<a href="mailto:jws@csse.unimelb.edu.au">jws@csse.unimelb.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:38:57PM +1200, Richard O'Keefe wrote:<br>
> > On 31/05/2011, at 8:20 AM, Paolo Negri wrote:<br>
> > > I would like to assess the state of development and recommended usage<br>
> > > of the halfword emulator.<br>
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> > Could I just make the point that "halfword" is confusing?<br>
> > I thought it referred to 16-bit units of something.<br>
> > It might be clearer if called the "small pointer emulator"<br>
> > or something like that.<br>
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> Or "compact pointer emulator" or "compact address emulator."<br>
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> Jeff Schultz</p>
<p>Was it not only for 64bit, hence a halfword will only be 32bit, not 16bit?<br>
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