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From: tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org (Tom Tkacik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: assembling with gas
Message-ID: <334@kyzyl.mi.org>
Date: 5 May 91 14:08:57 GMT
References: <1991May4.040336.10403@texrex.uucp>
Organization: Somewhere in Royal Oak, MI
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In article <1991May4.040336.10403@texrex.uucp>, rmfowler@texrex.uucp (Rex Fowler) writes:
> What I'm wanting to do is see if gas is able to assemble teval.s
> from the perl 4.0.0.3 distribution.  eval.c compiled fine but the 
> tainted version (teval.c) won't (ie. Branch offset too remote)
> 
> If you've ever tried to compile perl, you know what I'm talking about.
> perl 3.0 pl44 wasn't much problem but 4.0 has got me stumped.
 
I just took a quick look at the man page for as(1).  There is a -j switch
to as(1) that "invokes the long-jump assembler."  This looks like it
should solve your problem with the branch offsets being too long.

I have not tried this, so let us know if it works.

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