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Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:00:20 +0530
From:	Kishore K <hellokishore@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Kishore K <hellokishore@gmail.com>
To:	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: bal instruction in gcc 3.x
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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