diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
index 3ff829d89178..c299881c640a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
@@ -273,11 +273,27 @@ bool ins__is_call(const struct ins *ins)
 	return ins->ops == &call_ops || ins->ops == &s390_call_ops;
 }
 
-static int jump__parse(struct arch *arch __maybe_unused, struct ins_operands *ops, struct map_symbol *ms __maybe_unused)
+static int jump__parse(struct arch *arch __maybe_unused, struct ins_operands *ops, struct map_symbol *ms)
 {
+	struct map *map = ms->map;
+	struct symbol *sym = ms->sym;
+	struct addr_map_symbol target = {
+		.map = map,
+	};
 	const char *s = strchr(ops->raw, '+');
 	const char *c = strchr(ops->raw, ',');
-
+	u64 start, end;
+	/*
+	 * Examples of lines to parse for the _cpp_lex_token@@Base
+	 * function:
+	 *
+	 * 1159e6c: jne    115aa32 <_cpp_lex_token@@Base+0xf92>
+	 * 1159e8b: jne    c469be <cpp_named_operator2name@@Base+0xa72>
+	 *
+	 * The first is a jump to an offset inside the same function,
+	 * the second is to another function, i.e. that 0xa72 is an
+	 * offset in the cpp_named_operator2name@@base function.
+	 */
 	/*
 	 * skip over possible up to 2 operands to get to address, e.g.:
 	 * tbnz	 w0, #26, ffff0000083cd190 <security_file_permission+0xd0>
@@ -293,6 +309,35 @@ static int jump__parse(struct arch *arch __maybe_unused, struct ins_operands *op
 		ops->target.addr = strtoull(ops->raw, NULL, 16);
 	}
 
+	target.addr = map__objdump_2mem(map, ops->target.addr);
+	start = map->unmap_ip(map, sym->start),
+	end = map->unmap_ip(map, sym->end);
+
+	ops->target.outside = target.addr < start || target.addr > end;
+
+	/*
+	 * FIXME: things like this in _cpp_lex_token (gcc's cc1 program):
+
+		cpp_named_operator2name@@Base+0xa72
+
+	 * Point to a place that is after the cpp_named_operator2name
+	 * boundaries, i.e.  in the ELF symbol table for cc1
+	 * cpp_named_operator2name is marked as being 32-bytes long, but it in
+	 * fact is much larger than that, so we seem to need a symbols__find()
+	 * routine that looks for >= current->start and  < next_symbol->start,
+	 * possibly just for C++ objects?
+	 *
+	 * For now lets just make some progress by marking jumps to outside the
+	 * current function as call like.
+	 *
+	 * Actual navigation will come next, with further understanding of how
+	 * the symbol searching and disassembly should be done.
+
+	if (map_groups__find_ams(&target) == 0 &&
+	    map__rip_2objdump(target.map, map->map_ip(target.map, target.addr)) == ops->target.addr)
+		ops->target.sym = target.sym;
+	 */
+
 	if (s++ != NULL) {
 		ops->target.offset = strtoull(s, NULL, 16);
 		ops->target.offset_avail = true;
@@ -2355,11 +2400,15 @@ static void disasm_line__write(struct disasm_line *dl, struct annotation *notes,
 {
 	if (dl->ins.ops && dl->ins.ops->scnprintf) {
 		if (ins__is_jump(&dl->ins)) {
-			bool fwd = dl->ops.target.offset > dl->al.offset;
+			bool fwd;
 
+			if (dl->ops.target.outside)
+				goto call_like;
+			fwd = dl->ops.target.offset > dl->al.offset;
 			obj__write_graph(obj, fwd ? DARROW_CHAR : UARROW_CHAR);
 			obj__printf(obj, " ");
 		} else if (ins__is_call(&dl->ins)) {
+call_like:
 			obj__write_graph(obj, RARROW_CHAR);
 			obj__printf(obj, " ");
 		} else if (ins__is_ret(&dl->ins)) {
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.h b/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
index c0bf0554a9ea..ad8baafaf9f9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct ins_operands {
 		u64	addr;
 		s64	offset;
 		bool	offset_avail;
+		bool	outside;
 	} target;
 	union {
 		struct {