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#### 9.24.6.1 Branch Improvement

Certain pseudo opcodes are permitted for branch instructions. They expand to the shortest branch instruction that reach the target. Generally these mnemonics are made by prepending ‘`j`’ to the start of Motorola mnemonic. These pseudo opcodes are not affected by the ‘`--short-branches`’ or ‘`--force-long-branches`’ options.

The following table summarizes the pseudo-operations.

                            Displacement Width
         +-------------------------------------------------------------+
         |                     Options                                 |
         |    --short-branches           --force-long-branches         |
         +--------------------------+----------------------------------+
      Op |BYTE             WORD     | BYTE          WORD               |
         +--------------------------+----------------------------------+
     bsr | bsr <pc-rel>    <error>  |               jsr <abs>          |
     bra | bra <pc-rel>    <error>  |               jmp <abs>          |
    jbsr | bsr <pc-rel>   jsr <abs> | bsr <pc-rel>  jsr <abs>          |
    jbra | bra <pc-rel>   jmp <abs> | bra <pc-rel>  jmp <abs>          |
     bXX | bXX <pc-rel>    <error>  |               bNX +3; jmp <abs>  |
    jbXX | bXX <pc-rel>   bNX +3;   | bXX <pc-rel>  bNX +3; jmp <abs>  |
         |                jmp <abs> |                                  |
         +--------------------------+----------------------------------+
    XX: condition
    NX: negative of condition XX

`jbsr`
`jbra`

  These are the simplest jump pseudo-operations; they always map to one particular machine instruction, depending on the displacement to the branch target.

`jbXX`

  Here, ‘`jbXX`’ stands for an entire family of pseudo-operations, where XX is a conditional branch or condition-code test. The full list of pseudo-ops in this family is:

       jbcc   jbeq   jbge   jbgt   jbhi   jbvs   jbpl  jblo
       jbcs   jbne   jblt   jble   jbls   jbvc   jbmi

  For the cases of non-PC relative displacements and long displacements, `as` issues a longer code fragment in terms of NX, the opposite condition to XX. For example, for the non-PC relative case:

          jbXX foo

  gives

           bNXs oof
           jmp foo
       oof: