Egcs 1.0 on HPPA still does not work with long offsets...

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message <349004FE.7142C1E2@cern.ch>you write:
  > Hi Jeff,
Please send this stuff to egcs-bugs, not to individuals. 


  >    I managed to compile and install egcs 1.0 on my HP K890 (10.20).
  > However, one of the reason for trying to use egcs instead of gcc 2.7.x.x
  > is that I had a problem when linking large -fPIC object files in a
  > shared lib. I got (gcc2) and still get (egcs) the following errors during
  > linking:
  > 
  > /usr/ccs/bin/ld: Target of unconditional branch is out of range
  >    Reference from:  /user/rdm/rootg/src/TREE_G__Tree.o(0x563d0)
Does TREE_G__Tree.[cC] have a huge switch statement?  You might try
-mbig-switch.

jeff