From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
Cc: alan@linuxcare.com.au, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com, dhd@linuxcare.com
Subject: Re: gas 2.10.91 from 20000920 cvs is broken under hpux 10.20 
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:27:00 -0000
Message-id: <6052.969895689@upchuck>
References: <200009241651.MAA16321@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
X-SW-Source: 2000-09/msg00427.html

  In message < 200009241651.MAA16321@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca >you write:
  > I raised this point because I thought it might be a mistake for the assembl
  > er
  > not to make all branches with R_PCREL_CALL.  At the present time, short
  > branches appear to be built directly by the assembler and don't have any
  > relocation data.  To find these, the linker would have to scan the actual
  > code around an addil that was being removed.
It isn't a mistake to the best of my knowledge -- it already has to scan
the code to find the %r1 uses, pc-relative conditional branches and the
like.


jeff