Long Branches

[tropp at cthce.UUCP]

In article <449 at hadron.UUCP> jsdy at hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
|In article <3950007 at nucsrl.UUCP> ram at 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.