BFD_RELOC_MIPS_16

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, Alan Modra via Binutils wrote:

> time.  Like BFD_RELOC_8, BFD_RELOC_16 now has no corresponding object
> file relocation, and thus .half, .hword, .short and .dc.w must be
> resolved at assembly time.

 That should be R_MIPS_REL16 AFAICT, reloc #33 according to MIPS NewABI 
documentation[1]:

    Name      Value  Field   Symbol  Calculation
R_MIPS_REL16   33    V-hw16   any        S+A

and we have all the bits including a howto in place.  I wonder what 
happened that we never had it linked with BFD_RELOC_16.

References:

[1] "64-bit ELF Object File Specification", Draft Version 2.5, MIPS 
    Technologies / Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Document Number 
    007-4658-001, Table 32 "Relocation Types", p. 46

  Maciej