ld/testsuite/ld-elf/merge.s causes m32r gas assert failure

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:10:03AM -0700, Doug Evans wrote:
> Why is gas generating a pc-relative reloc that the target doesn't support?

See TC_FORCE_RELOCATION_SUB_LOCAL, and from there DIFF_EXPR_OK.

tc-m32r.h even says
#define DIFF_EXPR_OK		/* .-foo gets turned into PC relative relocs */

The comment has it back to front too.  Should be "foo - ."

> Is it the case that gas shouldn't have generated the pc-relative reloc?

Yep.

> Or are these ports incomplete and this reloc should be handled?

That too.

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Alan Modra
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