gas generating bad code for i386

[Tom Riddle]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>    Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 14:17:01 -0500
>    From: Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>
>
> Please do not send base64 messages to this mailing list.  Send plain
> text.

What I sent was plain text, not sure what you received.

>
>
> I'm surprised that the instruction `je 4' ever did what you want it to
> do.  To me that is a jump to the absolute address 4.
>
> Use something like `je .+4' instead.

According to the gas info pages, Node: i386-Memory:

   Absolute (as opposed to PC relative) call and jump operands must be
prefixed with `*'.  If no `*' is specified, `as' always chooses PC
relative addressing for jump/call labels.


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