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Re: gas generating bad code for i386

   Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 14:39:39 -0500
   From: Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>

   > Please do not send base64 messages to this mailing list.  Send plain
   > text.

   What I sent was plain text, not sure what you received.

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   > I'm surprised that the instruction `je 4' ever did what you want it to
   > do.  To me that is a jump to the absolute address 4.
   >
   > Use something like `je .+4' instead.

   According to the gas info pages, Node: i386-Memory:

      Absolute (as opposed to PC relative) call and jump operands must be
   prefixed with `*'.  If no `*' is specified, `as' always chooses PC
   relative addressing for jump/call labels.

That has to do with the addressing mode, not the target of the jump.
I read `je 4' as a PC relative jump to the absolute address 4.  The
current version of gas generates that, using a PC relative relocation.

Ian
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