[PATCH] [PATCH] riscv: Fix jal immediate encoding for constant offsets

[Jan Beulich]

On 16.06.2025 17:03, Mingzhu Yan wrote:
> This patch corrects an issue in the riscv gas where
> JMP instructions with constant, non-symbolic PC-relative
> offsets were incorrectly assembled with a zero immediate.
> 
> Previously, an instruction like j 4 would incorrectly assemble to
> 	0	0000006f	j       0 <.text>
> 
> But now, it is
> 	0:	0040006f	j       4 <.text+0x4>

Which isn't correct, imo. If you want to express the latter, the source
ought to be "j .+4". Whereas "j 4" means a jump to absolute address 4.
Unless there's anything in the RISC-V assembler spec that makes it
different in this regard from any other target I know of.

Jan