AS -force-long-branchs for all processors

[Kristis Makris]

Well, on x86 the "call" instruction for function calls supports absolute
addressing, but still "-force-long-branchs argument" won't work in
producing x86 machine code. In fact if you try to assemble something for
x86 with that argument with gcc 2.95.4 the source won't compile.

I thought that absolute call addressing is a rather common feature in
processors(maybe it's not). How come it only made it in gcc for the
m68HC11/12s ? Isn't that odd ?

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 21:06, Bansidhar Arvind Deshpande - CTD, Chennai.
wrote:
> Yes, Actually this is processor related issue. If ur processor
> supports relative jumps then only this option makes sense as 
> in case 68CH11, 68HC12 processors.
> 
> Is there a way to tell GCC to generate code that includes relative
> references for jumps inside a function(e.g. in che case of loops), but
> absolute references for calls to other functions ? 
> 
> I've see the -force-long-branchs argument on AS, but that seems to be
> available only for the 68CH11, 68HC12 processors.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kristis