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From: "Gagneet Singh" <gagneet@acmet.com>
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Subject: Relocatable Symbols in Expression
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:40:00 -0000
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Hi!

We are developing a port of the GNU Compiler + Assembler for a client
architecture. 
Now the problem being faced is that:

If an immediate operand to an instruction of the assembly language, is
an expression involving more than one relocatable symbols, how is it
handled in output file in elf format. 

What will be the relocation information produced in such a case?

Taking the simple example of a Jump instruction, referenced as 'j':

j label1 + label2

where label1 and label2 are defined in relocatable sections, they might
be the same sections or different relocatable sections.


Gagneet