https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16924
Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |WORKSFORME --- Comment #4 from Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com> --- Yes, 2.24 and earlier won't accept a plain unadorned "foo".. Upgrade! [alan@squeak bin-224]$ gas/as-new -a32 -o ori.o /src/tmp/ori.s /src/tmp/ori.s: Assembler messages: /src/tmp/ori.s:2: Error: unsupported relocation against foo Mainline gives me: [alan@squeak bin]$ gas/as-new -a32 -o ori.o /src/tmp/ori.s [alan@squeak bin]$ ld/ld-new -melf32ppc -o ori ori.o --defsym foo=0xffff ld/ld-new: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000001800054 [alan@squeak bin]$ ld/ld-new -melf32ppc -o ori ori.o --defsym foo=-1 ld/ld-new: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000001800054 ori.o:(.text+0x2): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_ADDR16 against symbol `foo' defined in *ABS* section in ori [alan@squeak bin]$ ld/ld-new -melf32ppc -o ori ori.o --defsym foo=0x10000 ld/ld-new: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000001800054 ori.o:(.text+0x2): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_ADDR16 against symbol `foo' defined in *ABS* section in ori It isn't necessary to do anything special with oris etc. A properly written program won't use ADDR16 relocs with oris, but instead will use ADDR16_HI. ADDR16_HI doesn't report overflow on ppc32. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils