We are facing a problem when U-boot is compiled with gcc 3.x U-boot uses the following instruction in one of the files. bal jump_to_symbol This code gets compiled without any problem with gcc2. However, if I compile the code with gcc3, it exits with the error "Cannot branch to unknown symbol". What should we do to circumvent this problem ? I replaced bal jump_to_symbol by la t9, jump_to_symbol jalr t9 Then code gets compiled properly without any problem. Please let me know, whether this is correct way of fixing the problem. I am newbie to MIPS assembly language. Why this change is required with gcc 3.x compiler ? TIA, --kishore
