pc-relative symbol resolution bug
Richard Henderson
rth@redhat.com
Thu Aug 29 10:55:00 GMT 2002
The following test case:
.section .rodata
A:
.align 4
.long B-.+(.-A)
.text
B:
results in
z.s:4: Error: invalid section for operation
This only happens when (.-A) spans two fragments, and
thus cannot be ireduced to a constant by expr.
This affects large x86-64 switch statements, as currently
emitted by gcc. I have a work-around, which is to form
the expression as
.long B+(.-A)-.
instead. Seems to me that both forms ought to work, but
it looks decidedly wicked to attempt with the current
order of evaluation within gas.
r~
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