From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
To: cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [aida_s@mx12.freecom.ne.jp: A serious bug of "ld --enable-auto-import"]
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:30:00 -0000
Message-id: <200108260530.BAA28221@envy.delorie.com>
References: <3B8884F6.80708@ece.gatech.edu>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00597.html

> pe_find_data_imports:_hwstr1
> ->__head_cyghwstr_dll
> arelent: _hwstr1@0xd: add=0  <<<< this should be "add=12", right?

Not always.  Sometimes the addend is in the relent, and sometimes the
addend is in the data stream.  It depends on the target format.

> Unfortunately, that's as far as I can go.  I don't know where the 
> arelent structure gets filled with the approprate data from the .o, so I 
> can't track down WHY the "12" isn't going into (arelent)->addend.

Gas puts it there.  Probably in src/gas/config/tc-i386.c's
tc_gen_reloc, but other places convert it from a bfd reloc to an
i386-specific reloc.