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 ===== Hunk Format =====
-AmigaOS binaries came in a special (non-ELF, non-PE) format that made it possible to split each binary into multiple "hunks". Code was always PIC (position-independent code), something that was easily done given the address modes of the 680x0 CPU that Amigas were based on. Addressing inside a hunk was IP-relative (IP: Instruction Pointer), addressing across hunks used a relocation table set up by the scatterloader.
+AmigaOS binaries came in a special (non-ELF, non-PE) format that made it possible to split each binary into multiple "hunks". (Think of each translation unit / source file as a "hunk".) Code was always PIC (position-independent code), something that was easily done given the address modes of the 680x0 CPU that Amigas were based on. Addressing inside a hunk was IP-relative (IP: Instruction Pointer), addressing across hunks used a relocation table set up by the scatterloader.
 ===== Scatterloader =====

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