gas 2.10.91 from 20000920 cvs is broken under hpux 10.20

[Alan Modra]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, John David Anglin wrote:

> Regarding the #ifdef OBJ_ELF, if it was in as per dhd's original patch,
> would this work for --enable-targets=all?

Yes, because the assembler is built only for the primary target.

> Another question.  The HP linker has a -O option which eliminates
> unnecessary addil's (and also dead procedures).  Could this upset
> the relative branches built by the assembler if one of the eliminated
> addil's was between the branch and target?

You probably know more about the HP linker than I do.  I imagine that
removing an addil between a branch and its target is a fairly common
occurrence, so the HP linker should adjust the branch offset.

Alan Modra
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