Understanding fragP->fr_address in md_estimate_size_before_relax

[Thomas Koenig]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to do a binutils port of a yet-to-be-released ISA,
and I have some trouble understanding relax.  I'm looking at RISC-V
as an example, but I am still somewhat confused.

One point I am wondering about is the use of fragP->fr_address in
md_estimate_size_before_relax.  Looking at the RISC-V port (which
does relax) as an example, I see that fragp->fr_address is always zero
on every invocation, which means that the calculation of the branch
length, which is done (in relaxed_branch_length)

       offsetT val = S_GET_VALUE (fragp->fr_symbol) + fragp->fr_offset;
       bfd_vma rvc_range = jump ? RVC_JUMP_REACH : RVC_BRANCH_REACH;
       val -= fragp->fr_address + fragp->fr_fix;

...

Since fr_address appears to be zero on every invocation of
md_estimate_before_size, the size calculation seems to be
wrong as often as not.

What am I missing here? Or have I stumbled across a bug, which
is later corrected (or not)?

Best regards

	Thomas