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<h5 class="subsubsection">9.36.4.2 Function Call Relaxation</h5>
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<p><a name="index-relaxation-of-call-instructions-1866"></a><a name="index-call-instructions_002c-relaxation-1867"></a>
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Function calls may require relaxation because the Xtensa immediate call
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instructions (<code>CALL0</code>, <code>CALL4</code>, <code>CALL8</code> and
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<code>CALL12</code>) provide a PC-relative offset of only 512 Kbytes in either
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direction. For larger programs, it may be necessary to use indirect
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calls (<code>CALLX0</code>, <code>CALLX4</code>, <code>CALLX8</code> and <code>CALLX12</code>)
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where the target address is specified in a register. The Xtensa
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assembler can automatically relax immediate call instructions into
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indirect call instructions. This relaxation is done by loading the
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address of the called function into the callee's return address register
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and then using a <code>CALLX</code> instruction. So, for example:
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<pre class="smallexample"> call8 func
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<p>might be relaxed to:
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<pre class="smallexample"> .literal .L1, func
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l32r a8, .L1
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callx8 a8
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<p>Because the addresses of targets of function calls are not generally
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known until link-time, the assembler must assume the worst and relax all
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the calls to functions in other source files, not just those that really
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will be out of range. The linker can recognize calls that were
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unnecessarily relaxed, and it will remove the overhead introduced by the
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assembler for those cases where direct calls are sufficient.
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<p>Call relaxation is disabled by default because it can have a negative
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effect on both code size and performance, although the linker can
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usually eliminate the unnecessary overhead. If a program is too large
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and some of the calls are out of range, function call relaxation can be
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enabled using the <span class="samp">--longcalls</span> command-line option or the
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<code>longcalls</code> directive (see <a href="Longcalls-Directive.html#Longcalls-Directive">longcalls</a>).
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