From: Kishore K <hellokishore@gmail.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: bal instruction in gcc 3.x
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:00:20 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f07e6e05071909301c212ab4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
We are facing a problem when U-boot is compiled with gcc 3.x
U-boot uses the following instruction in one of the files.
bal jump_to_symbol
This code gets compiled without any problem with gcc2. However, if I
compile the code
with gcc3, it exits with the error "Cannot branch to unknown symbol".
What should we do to circumvent this problem ?
I replaced
bal jump_to_symbol
by
la t9, jump_to_symbol
jalr t9
Then code gets compiled properly without any problem. Please let me
know, whether this
is correct way of fixing the problem. I am newbie to MIPS assembly
language. Why this
change is required with gcc 3.x compiler ?
TIA,
--kishore
next reply other threads:[~2005-07-19 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-19 16:30 Kishore K [this message]
2005-07-19 16:44 ` bal instruction in gcc 3.x Ralf Baechle
2005-07-19 17:19 ` Kishore K
2005-07-19 19:53 ` Pete Popov
2005-07-20 8:59 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-07-20 9:17 ` Thiemo Seufer
2005-07-20 9:47 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-07-20 9:19 ` Kishore K
2005-07-20 9:52 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-07-20 12:39 ` Alexander Voropay
2005-07-20 12:39 ` Alexander Voropay
2005-07-20 12:54 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-07-20 13:24 ` Alexander Voropay
2005-07-20 13:24 ` Alexander Voropay
2005-07-20 13:25 ` Thiemo Seufer
2005-07-20 12:54 ` Thiemo Seufer
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