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Re: gas generating bad code for i386

To: ian at zembu dot com
Subject: Re: gas generating bad code for i386
From: Andrew Haley <aph at pasanda dot cygnus dot co dot uk>
Date: 7 Mar 2000 20:09:46 -0000
CC: ftr at oracom dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com

> Date: 7 Mar 2000 15:04:19 -0500
> From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
> 
> This has changed.  With the current sources `call 4' generates a
> relocation for a PC relative call to the absolute address 4.

That's good news.  There are hacks in gcc to work around this
misfeature.

Andrew.

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