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Re: gas 2.10.91 from 20000920 cvs is broken under hpux 10.20
- To: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Subject: Re: gas 2.10.91 from 20000920 cvs is broken under hpux 10.20
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:28:09 -0600
- cc: alan at linuxcare dot com dot au, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, dhd at linuxcare dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <200009241651.MAA16321@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>you write:
> I raised this point because I thought it might be a mistake for the assembl
> er
> not to make all branches with R_PCREL_CALL. At the present time, short
> branches appear to be built directly by the assembler and don't have any
> relocation data. To find these, the linker would have to scan the actual
> code around an addil that was being removed.
It isn't a mistake to the best of my knowledge -- it already has to scan
the code to find the %r1 uses, pc-relative conditional branches and the
like.
jeff