Reloc question

[Doug Evans]

Alan Modra writes:
 > 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.

cpus with complex addressing modes were _never_ at issue.

One data point is that if the reloc refers to the insn, you can do various
kinds of relaxation.  Can't do that with just BFD_RELOC_{8,16,32}.
Whether that's at issue for the cpu in question I dunno.