gas generating bad code for i386

Andrew Haley aph@pasanda.cygnus.co.uk
Tue Mar 7 12:09:00 GMT 2000


> Date: 7 Mar 2000 15:04:19 -0500
> From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
> 
> This has changed.  With the current sources `call 4' generates a
> relocation for a PC relative call to the absolute address 4.

That's good news.  There are hacks in gcc to work around this
misfeature.

Andrew.



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