I think the author is just noting that the construction is similar to an 8-byte JMP instruction. The text now reads: > The simplest solution however is to use

I think the author is just noting that the construction is similar to an 8-byte JMP instruction. The text now reads: > The simplest solution however is to use -mcmodel=large which changes all the relative CALL instructions to absolute 64bit ones; kind of like a JMP. (We still need to use CALL in order to push a return address.)