another previous maintainer, unrelated to the code. (And with no names,
they're not so fun to read. :-)
+For sparc: "call 0" becomes "jmpl %g0,%l7", and similarly for absolute
+addresses in -4096...4095. (Solaris assembler does this. No
+relocation required, no absolute symbol needed.) For addresses
+outside the range, for COFF, keep generating an absolute symbol to use
+for relocs.
+
Get Steve to document H8/500 stuff (and others).
Improve test suite. Incorporate more reported net bugs, and non-confidential