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<title>Using as: Xtensa Branch Relaxation</title>
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Next: <a href="Xtensa-Call-Relaxation.html#Xtensa-Call-Relaxation" accesskey="n" rel="next">Xtensa Call Relaxation</a>, Up: <a href="Xtensa-Relaxation.html#Xtensa-Relaxation" accesskey="u" rel="up">Xtensa Relaxation</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="AS-Index.html#AS-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<a name="Conditional-Branch-Relaxation"></a>
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<h4 class="subsubsection">9.52.4.1 Conditional Branch Relaxation</h4>
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<a name="index-branch-instructions_002c-relaxation"></a>
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<p>When the target of a branch is too far away from the branch itself,
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i.e., when the offset from the branch to the target is too large to fit
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in the immediate field of the branch instruction, it may be necessary to
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replace the branch with a branch around a jump. For example,
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<pre class="smallexample"> beqz a2, L
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<p>may result in:
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<pre class="smallexample"> bnez.n a2, M
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j L
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M:
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<p>(The <code>BNEZ.N</code> instruction would be used in this example only if the
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density option is available. Otherwise, <code>BNEZ</code> would be used.)
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</p>
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<p>This relaxation works well because the unconditional jump instruction
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has a much larger offset range than the various conditional branches.
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However, an error will occur if a branch target is beyond the range of a
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jump instruction. <code>as</code> cannot relax unconditional jumps.
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Similarly, an error will occur if the original input contains an
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unconditional jump to a target that is out of range.
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<p>Branch relaxation is enabled by default. It can be disabled by using
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underscore prefixes (see <a href="Xtensa-Opcodes.html#Xtensa-Opcodes">Opcode Names</a>), the
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‘<samp>--no-transform</samp>’ command-line option (see <a href="Xtensa-Options.html#Xtensa-Options">Command Line Options</a>), or the <code>no-transform</code> directive
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(see <a href="Transform-Directive.html#Transform-Directive">transform</a>).
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