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Re: elfxx-ia64.c question
>>>>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:35:45 -0800, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> said:
HJ> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:13:38PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
>> Yes, here is why I ran into it: I would like to use @secrel() in
>> the linux kernel to build the exception tables. We used to use
>> @gprel() entries for this purpose, but that doesn't work with the
>> latest kernel setup anymore (and wasn't a good idea anyhow).
>> Alpha Linux uses the "label-." construct to build pc-relative
>> entries that fit in 32 bits; in principle, this would work on
>> ia64, too, except that there seems to be a gas bug that prevents
>> this from working. With @secrel() I can
HJ> One ia64 pc-relative bug was fixed on Dec. 18. Do you have the
HJ> recent binutils?
Man, you rock!
No, I hadn't tried anything that recent. I did now and it does indeed
fix the problem. Cool.
OK, perhaps I justs need to bite the bullet and force people to
upgrade to a bleeding-edge assembler. On the positive side, it'll
let me remove some backwards-compatibility stuff that won't be
needed anymore.
Thanks,
--david