MIPS branching too far

[Alexandre Oliva]

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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