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[pozorvlak]

I have just written the following commit message:

"Branch over unconditional jump" hack for arbitrary-length brcc.
    
 - brcc (branch and compare) instructions can have static branch-prediction
   hints, but can only jump a limited distance.
 - Calculating the distance of a jump at expand-time is hard.
 - So instead of emitting just a brcc instruction, we emit an unconditional
   jump to the same place and a branch over it.
 - I added a simple counter to emit/state to number the labels thus introduced.
 - With this commit, I forfeit all right to criticise the hackiness of anyone
   else's code.
 - Though I doubt that will stop me.