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From: tropp@cthce.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Long Branches
Message-ID: <109@cthce.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 05:10:32 EST
Article-I.D.: cthce.109
Posted: Tue Feb 10 05:10:32 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Feb-87 01:58:12 EST
References: <3950007@nucsrl.UUCP> <449@hadron.UUCP>
Reply-To: tropp@cthce.UUCP (Ulf Tropp)
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Eng., Chalmers, Goeteborg, Sweden
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In article <449@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
|In article <3950007@nucsrl.UUCP> ram@nucsrl.UUCP (Raman Renu) writes:
||   I have a problem in using the C compiler and VAX assembler in our local
||4.3BSD(VAX) site.  I have a program which has a huge(>900lines) switch
||statement.
||The assembler chokes on (>32K long) long branches.
|
|Speaking of which, I'd like to promote the use of the form:
|	if (...) {
|		...
|	} else if (...) {
|		...
|	} else if (...) {
|		...  ...
|	}
From 4.2BSD(VAX) as man page:

     -J   Use long branches to resolve jumps when byte-
          displacement branches are insufficient.  This must be
          used when a compiler-generated assembly contains
          branches of more than 32k bytes.