Random Coldfusion Error

So just a quick post of an error I was receiving on an environment with an older version of Coldfusion 8 (prior to 8.01). The error was "Branch target offset too large for short". I googled this error an not a lot of clear help but what it came down to is the main function was just too large ( 1,000 lines of code). And it really only came up when I added like 15-20 more lines to the function. In order to fix it however I just broke my new changes off into their own function and it seemed to work. Further refactoring of this function is almost a must and will probably happen when I have time to do so. Just wanted to point this out, maybe for my own reminder but maybe it might help someone else.