hppa, global symbols and the BL instruction

[Alan Modra]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:18:30AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> It seems that GAS cannot encode the necessary relocation if the symbol
> is more than 64K instructions away from the start of the object file.

It should be able to.  On RELA targets the relocation addend isn't
stored in the text section.  If you have a relocation, the value written
to the field is generally not important (because it will be overwritten
by the linker).

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre