MIPS branching too far

[Colin Burgess]

Hello,

I've come across code which generates calls of the form

j $L2

which gets converted to a branch instruction by case in the
handling of M_J_A when compiling SVR4 PIC code.

The problem is that $L2 is too far away for a branch
instruction.

I think that what is needed is to load the address into a
register and then use that register as a jump destination,
if the destination is too far for a simple branch.

Thanks,

Colin

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