If you specify the .W specifier, the instruction
is encoded in 32 bits even if it can be encoded in 16 bits. You
can use a diagnostic warning to detect when a branch instruction
could have been encoded in 16 bits, but has been encoded in 32 bits.
To do this, use the following command line option when invoking
the assembler:
armasm --diag_warning 1607
Note
This diagnostic does not produce a warning for relocated branch instructions, because the final address is not known. The linker might even insert a veneer, if the branch is out of range for a 32-bit instruction.
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