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Re: PPC assembler problem


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:56:00AM +0200, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using a cross GCC 4.5.0 configured for a PPC-ELF target. The
> compiler generates code like this:
> 
> -- snip --
>         lis 0,symbol+520@ha
>         addic 4,0,symbol@l+520
> -- snip --
> 
> FWIW, GCC 4.4 generates similar code for the same source file. GAS
> (a very old one, but that shouldn't matter) assembles this without
> a complaint. Using a non-GNU assembler yields in an error for the
> addic instruction. That assembler doesn't like the addition _after_
> the @l reloc. In the lis instruction the addition is emitted before
> the reloc. Is the placement of the addition after the @l reloc a GCC
> bug and GAS is simply to lenient?

Yes, I think this is a gcc bug.  In fact, I ran into something like
this when working on bigtoc support.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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