[PATCH] Arm64: re-work PR gas/27217 fix

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Jan,

> Before the release is cut, may I ask what the plans here are? Should I
> commit this patch, are there alternative plans to address the regression,
> or is the regression intended to remain present in 2.39?

Please commit to the mainline, but leave the branch unchanged.

I am just being conservative here and letting the 2.39 release go out without
a possibly problematic change.  It is my hope that by the time the 2.40 release
comes around your changes will have had enough testing on the mainline sources
that we can be confident that they do not break anything.

Cheers
   Nick