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Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Xtensa-Immediate-Relaxation.html#Xtensa-Immediate-Relaxation">Xtensa Immediate Relaxation</a>,
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<h5 class="subsubsection">9.55.4.3 Jump Relaxation</h5>
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<p><a name="index-relaxation-of-jump-instructions-2638"></a><a name="index-jump-instructions_002c-relaxation-2639"></a>
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Jump instruction may require relaxation because the Xtensa jump instruction
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(<code>J</code>) provide a PC-relative offset of only 128 Kbytes in either
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direction. One option is to use jump long (<code>J.L</code>) instruction, which
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depending on jump distance may be assembled as jump (<code>J</code>) or indirect
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jump (<code>JX</code>). However it needs a free register. When there's no spare
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register it is possible to plant intermediate jump sites (trampolines)
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between the jump instruction and its target. These sites may be located in
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areas unreachable by normal code execution flow, in that case they only
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contain intermediate jumps, or they may be inserted in the middle of code
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block, in which case there's an additional jump from the beginning of the
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trampoline to the instruction past its end. So, for example:
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<pre class="smallexample"> j 1f
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...
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retw
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...
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mov a10, a2
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call8 func
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...
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1:
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...
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<p>might be relaxed to:
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<pre class="smallexample"> j .L0_TR_1
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...
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retw
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.L0_TR_1:
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j 1f
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...
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mov a10, a2
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call8 func
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...
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1:
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...
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</pre>
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<p>or to:
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<pre class="smallexample"> j .L0_TR_1
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...
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retw
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...
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mov a10, a2
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j .L0_TR_0
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.L0_TR_1:
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j 1f
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.L0_TR_0:
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call8 func
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...
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1:
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...
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<p>The Xtensa assembler uses trampolines with jump around only when it cannot
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find suitable unreachable trampoline. There may be multiple trampolines
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between the jump instruction and its target.
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<p>This relaxation does not apply to jumps to undefined symbols, assuming they
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will reach their targets once resolved.
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<p>Jump relaxation is enabled by default because it does not affect code size
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or performance while the code itself is small. This relaxation may be
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disabled completely with ‘<samp><span class="samp">--no-trampolines</span></samp>’ or ‘<samp><span class="samp">--no-transform</span></samp>’
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command-line options (see <a href="Xtensa-Options.html#Xtensa-Options">Command-line Options</a>).
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