Another relocation problem - and patch

[Andreas Schwab]

Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

|> After patch:
|> 
|> $ as
|> jmp a+b
|> a:
|> b=2
|> $ objdump --disassemble
|> 
|> a.out:     file format elf32-i386
|> 
|> Disassembly of section .text:
|> 
|> 00000000 <a-0x5>:
|>    0:   e9 02 00 00 00          jmp    7 <a+0x2>
|> $
|> 
|> 
|> It doesn't use optimal length but at least it doesn't create broken code.
|> The relax is actually done in md_estimate_size_before_relax because the
|> section of expression symbol is different. Has anybody idea what to do
|> with it? Is there some function that evaluates the expression symbol and
|> converts it to symbol + constant value?

I think the assembler should just create a fixup for this expression.

Andreas.

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