assertion failure in coff-i386.c on .code16
Alan Modra
alanATSPRI.Levels.UniSA.Edu.Au
Fri Sep 17 03:29:00 GMT 1999
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> While configuring GNU GRUB I have noticed that "as" cannot compile the
> following file:
>
> .code16
> l1: addr32
> movb %al, l1
>
> D:\home\proski\src\bfd>as test.s
> test.s: Assembler messages:
> test.s:2: Warning: stand-alone `addr32' prefix
> as: bfd assertion fail coff-i386.c:498
> test.s:3: Error: Cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_16
.code16 on ix86 works properly only for elf at the moment. It looks
fairly easy to fix for coff though, but I'm not sure whether we need to
add R_DIR16 support, and use that for the BFD_RELOC_16 case, or whether we
should use R_RELWORD. To round out support, I suppose we need
to add R_DIR8 (type 0??) or use R_RELBYTE. I'm no coff expert. Ian?
BTW, include/coff/internal.h has a seemingly bogus R_PCLONG define, as
well as duplicates for R_RELBYTE and R_RELWORD
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