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

[Andreas Schwab]

Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:

> Paul Koning wrote:
> [snip]
>>  >> That certainly is not what I expect from the documentation.  If
>>  >> you need "bar" as a displacement, then it clearly is not a memory
>>  >> location -- which is what "m" means.
>> 
>>  Thiemo> I need "bar" as a symbol reference.
>> 
>> Doesn't "i" do what you need for this?
>
> The symbol's address is not an assembly-time constant.

I think "assembly-time constant" includes entities that require link-time
relocation, but are not otherwise changed at runtime.  But note that you
probably need to use %c0 to substitute the argument.

Andreas.

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