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Re: [PATCH] Fix i386 @NTPOFF and @DTPOFF with addend

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, drepper at redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:01:47 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix i386 @NTPOFF and @DTPOFF with addend
References: <20020910235526.K1013@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <20020910150706.H2823@dhcp187.sf.frob.com>

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 03:07:06PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Also, having as do the negation seems a little questionable.
> Shouldn't the assembly writer (and compiler) know that it is using
> a negative operand in this case and write it that way?

I agree.  Thinking at the relocation level, it would be confusing
to not treat the symbol+addend as a single quantity.

r~

References:
- [PATCH] Fix i386 @NTPOFF and @DTPOFF with addend
  - From: Jakub Jelinek
- Re: [PATCH] Fix i386 @NTPOFF and @DTPOFF with addend
  - From: Roland McGrath

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