>How would you account for the movement of code near the end of the
>program

Compilers handle this by using two passes. By the second pass all the
information required is known (including the size of jumps etc). A
loophole optimizer may add additional passes (several) precisely for the
reason you gave. None of this happens at the file level, it happens in the
data structures of the compiler.

Peter

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