Reloc question

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Richard Sandiford wrote:

> Is it better to have a reloc refer to the operand that needs fixing up, or
> to the instruction that contains it?

Why would you want a reloc referring anywhere other than the word(s) that
need relocating?  Seems counter-intuitive to me, especially on variable
instruction size cpus like x86.

Alan Modra
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