if instead of 10k code written directly, I write a function and call that
from option 1 ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Ardiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Assembler Error: Value of -35828 too large for field of 2 bytes
Who knows what that means? I avoided the errors by adding a "-O1".
But how come?
this error occurred due to the size of the code.
if you have a function thats greater than 32kb, chances are that you
may have a switch statement that has a large amount of code inside it.
all jumps in 68k are done using 16bit values - so, you are limited to
jumping + and - 32767 bytes.
if you have this:
switch ()
{
case 1:
// 10K of code
case 2:
// 20K of code
case 3:
// 10K of code
case 4:
// 10K of code
jumping to case 1,2, and 3 will be fine, its offsets are 0, 10K and 30K.
but,
case 4 is 40K away - this exceeds the normal jump boundaries = your error.
you didn't get the error with -O1 as it then optimizes for size = smaller
code.
the fix? make your routines smaller so that there are no large branches like
this for the compiler to trip up on. everyone else's response should be
ignored - trust me, this is the error and reason.
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// Aaron Ardiri
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