Error: Adjusted signed .word (0xc244) overflows: `switch'-statement too large.

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi!

While building LibreOffice on m68k [1], I ran into an issue which has been
previously observed in mednafen as well [2]:

{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:20833: Error: Adjusted signed .word (0xabe2) overflows: `switch'-statement too large.

So the compiler generated assembler code that the assembler itself is choking
because the generated code is too complex.

Does anyone know what exactly the background of this problem is? Is this
actually a switch statement in the C/C++ code which is too complex?

Adrian

> [1] https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/libreoffice_5.2.4~rc1-1_m68k.build
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2014/09/msg00004.html

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