Hi. as sometimes does not create reloc entry. It is a bug. Tested on binutils 2.10.91. Mikulas $ as a: b: call a-b $ objdump --reloc a.out: file format elf32-i386 RELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.text]: OFFSET TYPE VALUE 00000001 R_386_PC32 *ABS* $ as call a-b a: b: $ objdump --reloc a.out: file format elf32-i386 $