[PATCH 2.5/4 v2] GAS: Make new fake labels when cloning a symbol
Richard Earnshaw
rearnsha@arm.com
Thu Dec 2 17:01:00 GMT 2010
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:34 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Richard Sandiford wrote:
>
> > Sounds good, but please don't let it get in the way of applying this patch
> > (when the time comes). The change above seems entirely in keeping with
> > the way that abs_symbol is initialised.
>
> This is the version I applied.
>
> 2010-12-01 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@codesourcery.com>
>
> * symbols.h (dot_symbol): New declaration.
> (dot_symbol_init): New prototype.
> * symbols.c (dot_symbol): New variable.
> (symbol_clone): Assert it's not dot_symbol being cloned.
> (dot_symbol_init): New function.
> (symbol_clone_if_forward_ref): Create a new temporary symbol
> when trying to clone dot_symbol.
> * expr.c (current_location): Refer to dot_symbol instead of
> making a new temporary symbol.
> * read.c (read_a_source_file): Update dot_symbol as we go.
> * as.c (main): Call dot_symbol_init.
So I'm not entirely sure that this patch is responsible, but it does
look a likely candidate...
.section .text._ZnajPv,"axG",%progbits,_ZnajPv,comdat
.fnstart
.fnend
/arm/scratch/rearnsha/gnu/gcc-results/trunk/gcc/../gas/as-new
-o /tmp/x.o test.s
test.s: Assembler messages:
test.s:3: Error: redefined symbol cannot be used on reloc
/arm/scratch/rearnsha/gnu/gcc-results/trunk/gcc/../gas/as-new: /tmp/x.o:
symbol `.' required but not present
test.s:3: Fatal error: can't close /tmp/x.o: No symbols
This is on arm-eabi.
R
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