On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:24 +0200, Uros Bizjak wrote: > I'm looking into i386.md, where we have a bunch of instances of > following comment: > > ; Current assemblers are broken and do not allow @GOTOFF in > ; ought but a memory context. > > Code, following this comment disables or special-cases > "pic_symbolic_operands". > > I'm investigating, which "current assemblers" are broken, since my > assembler from binutils-2.20 happily assembles: > > addl x...@gotoff(%ebx), %eax > > in 32bit mode, as well as > > addq x...@gotpcrel(%rip), %rax > > in 64bit mode. > > Looking into gcc install documentation, the lowest mentioned version > is 2.13.1. I have no idea, if this version supports above asm, so I > would like to ask someone with access to this ancient version if he > can test this instruction.
FYI, binutils-2.13.1 (that doesn't even build out-of-the-box nowadays without a couple of trivial fixes) assembles above instructions without problems, so IMO - as far as ELF is concerned - we can remove this limitation. Uros.
