On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Kishore K wrote: > On the other hand, if I replace > > bal jump_to_label > > by > > la t9, jump_to_label > jalr t9 > > I don't see any warning. What could be the reason ? Implicit assumptions in the "jal" macro. > Can you suggest, what should be done to make the code safe for > building on 64 bit processor. In this case: dla t9, jump_to_label jalr t9 Though we actually have auxiliary macros to make the resulting code readable. So in the end you should really use something like this: #include <asm/asm.h> PTR_LA t9, jump_to_label jalr t9 letting the whole mess be hidden in headers. Maciej
