Re: Can't Resolve External Symbol When Subtracting

["Anthony DeRosa" <ADEROSA at evitechnology dot com>]

Is this the wrong mailing list for the question I posted yesterday,
repeated below?

Thanks,
Anthony

>>> "Anthony DeRosa" <ADEROSA@evitechnology.com> 10/26/2006 10:32 am
>>>

After recently upgrading from binutils 2.15.90 to binutils 2.17, I get
the following error with the following code:
 
#-------------- code snippet ---------------------------------
.extern external_symbol
 
local_symbol_0:
    .half 0x1234
 
local_symbol_1:
    .half 0x5678
 
some_table:
 
    # this *does* work
    .word external_symbol
 
    # this *does* work
    .word local_symbol_0 - local_symbol_1
 
    # this does *not* work
    .word external_symbol - local_symbol_0

 
#-------------- reported error ---------------------------------
$ mips-elf-as test.S 
test.S: Assembler messages:
test.S:8: Error: can't resolve `external_symbol' {*UND* section} -
``local_symbol_0' {.text section}
 
#------------------------------------------------------------------
 
This error did not occur with the previous version of binutils.  Why
does this no longer work?  What is the workaround?
 
Thanks,
 
Anthony