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From: boehm@RICE.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: assembler bug
Message-ID: <13304@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Sep-84 19:13:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.13304
Posted: Sat Sep  8 19:13:37 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Sep-84 04:57:17 EDT
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From:  Hans Boehm <boehm@RICE.ARPA>

  The VAX 4.2 assembler does not appear to handle certain extended branch
instructions correctly in the presence of multiple text segments.  In
particular I have been having trouble with a forward jeql with a
displacement of roughly 400 or 500 bytes.  There are no intervening
changes of segment between the branch and its destination.  There
are however multiple switches between text 0 and text 1 preceding it.
It assembles correctly if the preceding .text directives are removed.
Has anyone encountered this problem? Any fixes?
  (This was tried with or without the -J and various -d options.
The offending program is appr 1400 lines long.  I will be happy to send
it to any interested party.  I haven't had time to try to generate a
shorter example.)
					Hans Boehm
					(Boehm@rice)