[patch] MIPS gas problems with gcc's explicit relocs

[Nigel Stephens]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>which I find consistent with my assumption addresses should be handled
>uniformly universally.  The book was largely written by Dominic Sweetman
>and Nigel Stephens, so perhaps they can express their opinions whether
>using "la" for anything beyond symbol literals is broken or not.  I find
>it a natural consequence of the macro being "load *address*" after all.
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I agree with Maciej. The definition of the "la" macro surely requires 
that it must accept any address syntax that would be valid for "lw".

> The "li" macro naturally rejects any non-immediate addresses as it's
>"load *immediate*".
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Yes, "la" is a superset of "li".