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Re: MIPS branching too far
- To: "Colin Burgess" <cburgess at qnx dot com>
- Subject: Re: MIPS branching too far
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 29 Sep 2001 05:47:16 -0300
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <200109202023.QAA363749422@node109.ott.qnx.com>
On Sep 20, 2001, "Colin Burgess" <cburgess@qnx.com> wrote:
> Now the problem I'm seeing is that since I'm compiling this PIC,
> then the jmp to label1 is being transformed by the assembler into
> a branch, and the jump distance is just too long for a branch.
I believe on MIPS it is the assembler's job to relax branches into
jumps if their targets are too far away.
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