Re: [patch][rfc] Complex Relocations gas and bfd

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Dave,

> > One point though - with a new feature like this there really ought 
> > to be some new testsuite entries to 

> I'm wondering how this could be done. As I understand it, relocations 
> are applied to fields in insns. How could we construct test cases which 
> are not specific to a given ISA?

Frank Eigler mentioned one way - extending GAS to allow the generation 
of complex expressions in a target neutral way.  Another way might be to 
create a new "generic" target which uses the complex relocations but 
which does not represent a real architecture.  (This target might also 
be used as a template for creating new target ports).

Cheers
  Nick