From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1634 invoked by alias); 7 Jul 2006 23:26:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 1624 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Jul 2006 23:26:53 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (HELO mail-out4.apple.com) (17.254.13.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:26:48 +0000 Received: from relay8.apple.com (relay8.apple.com [17.128.113.38]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k67NQCgq028054; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:26:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.201.20.153] (unknown [17.201.20.153]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay8.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id EC28C4B7; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:26:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200607070954.k679sUO28216@alice.acmet.com> References: <200607070954.k679sUO28216@alice.acmet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <21B25257-B978-4A74-A197-780164879FA7@apple.com> Cc: binutils@sourceware.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric Christopher Subject: Re: Is it possible to branch to an absolute address ? Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:26:00 -0000 To: amarnath@acmet.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-07/txt/msg00100.txt.bz2 > > - In the above, why GCC was not assembling the branch instruction with > absolute value as operand in it? You asked these questions in private mail yesterday. Please go read my response and look at the ISA manual. -eric