PATCH: PR gas/2117: IA64 assembler is broken

Jan Beulich JBeulich@novell.com
Mon Jan 9 09:53:00 GMT 2006


>--- gas/symbols.c.equ	2005-12-24 08:16:57.000000000 -0800
>+++ gas/symbols.c	2006-01-06 17:40:57.000000000 -0800
>@@ -1399,7 +1399,9 @@ snapshot_symbol (symbolS **symbolPP, val
> 	    }
> 	}
> 
>-      *symbolPP = symbolP;
>+      /* Never change a defined symbol.  */
>+      if (symbolP->bsym->section == undefined_section)
>+	*symbolPP = symbolP;
>       *valueP = expr.X_add_number;
>       *segP = symbolP->bsym->section;
>       *fragPP = symbolP->sy_frag;

The minimum, as I view it, is to also include expr_section symbols
here. Beyond that, assuming that you already checked that no existing
test case breaks, I hope this change will not have other ill effects.

Jan



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