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1Fundamental design decision:
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3- the sizes of external and internal types are assumed to be the same.
4  This leaves byte ordering aside.  While assuming this the code can be
5  greatly simplified and speed increases.  Since no change violating this
6  assumption is in sight this is believed to be a worthwhile optimization.
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8- the ABI of the backend modules is not guaranteed.  Really, not guarantee
9  whatsoever.  We are enforcing this in the code.  The modules and their
10  users must match.  No third-party EBL module are supported or allowed.
11  The only reason there are separate modules is to not have the code for
12  all architectures in all the binaries.
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