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I'm using gcc-1.40 on an NCR Tower 32/750 (a 68040 machine), and I'm
having a problem.  When compiling perl, in the file eval.c, I get the
error

Assembler: eval.c
	aline 2052(cline 2377): branch offset is too remote

Looking in eval.s, I see that this line is

	bra.w L%181

and from tm-tower.h I see that this was rewritten from

	jbra L%181
.

Does anyone else out there with a 68040 have any clue as to how long
(or short) the limit for a branch instruction is, and what the heck
configuration parameter to gcc I should use to fix it?

Yes, I know.  The right thing to do is to use gas and scrap NCR's old
fuddy-duddy assembler.  If I did that, I could run g++, too (the NCR
as has *really* stupid ideas about what's good in a label, and g++
just can't be dumbed-down enough), but I haven't been able to find a
set of patches to gas that really worked for me.  I seem to recall
that the last time I tried (with patches to 1.36), I couldn't get gas
compiled so as to produce sdb-style stabs.

Any help?

Andy Kailhofer
Ameritech Services, Inc.    a907932@nast0.bdy.wi.ameritech.com
414/678-7793