crb6 % cat ldr-reloc.s ldr x24, [x23, :got_lo12:sym] ldr w24, [x23, :got_lo12:sym] crb6 % as -mabi=ilp32 -o ldr-reloc.o ldr-reloc.s crb6 % objdump -dr ldr-reloc.o ldr-reloc.o: file format elf32-littleaarch64 Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: f94002f8 ldr x24, [x23] 0: R_AARCH64_P32_LD32_GOT_LO12_NC sym 4: b94002f8 ldr w24, [x23] 4: R_AARCH64_P32_LD32_GOT_LO12_NC sym crb6 % as --version GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.28.51.20170130 Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. This program has absolutely no warranty. This assembler was configured for a target of `aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu'.