From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Fix PR gas/827
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u0mkvw31.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050406081146.GF29412@bubble.modra.org>
Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> While poking at pseudo_set, I noticed that assignment to section symbols
> is only prevented when assigning some other symbol to the section
> symbol. This seemed odd to me, so I modified the code to give an error
> on any assignment to section symbols. Another oddity is special casing
> sym1 = sym2 + const for const == 0. When const != 0, the old code
> created an expression symbol, and I can't see the reason for that. Ian,
> do you know why this was done?
No, I don't. It's particularly odd since the subsequent code is
careful to add in exp.X_add_number.
I've often wished that I had taken a copy of the Cygnus CVS repository
when I left. I had access for a long time after I left, then I
suddenly lost it.
Ian
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-06 8:12 Alan Modra
2005-04-06 14:06 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2005-04-09 2:30 ` Alan Modra
2005-04-09 6:20 ` Alan Modra
2005-04-15 6:14 ` Alan Modra
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