Re: GCC generating wrong assembly code?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:30:36AM -0700, Dennis Newbold wrote:

>      I'm trying to build gcj (GNU Java ahead-of-time compiler) from
> the sources.  It ran for quite awhile, and then on a particular file,
> it got about 20 "Error: branch out of range" errors from the gas
> assembler.  I'm hoping that someone on this list that understands gcc

This is supposedly fixed in the very latest versions.

As a temporary workaround that works for most files enable optimization
-O or even -O2 for those files affected by this problem.  -fno-inline
or -Os may also help - basically everything that reduces the code size.

  Ralf