Fix for s390_elf_cons.

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Tue Aug 7 05:59:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:41:00PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Andreas complained that binutils-2.11.90.0.24 doesn't work on s390/s390x.
> > Well he is right. The problem is that the behaviour of fixup_segment has
> > changed a bit.  The solution is to pass false for pcrel on the call to
> > fix_new_exp in s390_elf_cons. Then the missing pc relative conversion in
> > fixup_segment are done again.
> 
> Has this issue now been resolved?  I didn't see the patch committed
> and from the discussion it's not clear to me what should be done now.

Since I was involved in the discussion, let me make it clear that I don't
have an objection to the patch itself.  It's OK to commit in that it does
the right thing interpreting the, to my mind weird, s390 assembly syntax.
I suppose it's too late to change the syntax now.

Alan



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