DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I comment out the "&& offset == 0" line, gcc produces assembly like this: > > l %r2,[EMAIL PROTECTED](%r12) > > The assembler and linker don't seem to have a problem with that > construct. Are we deliberately avoiding it for some obscure reason, > or is this just a bug that's never been tripped over before?
The GOT is an array of addresses, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses one of these addresses. Thus [EMAIL PROTECTED] points to the address of a different and unrelated variable, assuming it is still within the range of the GOT. > If it's a bug, is there some test for a "reasonable" offset that we > can add, that makes sense? Since a GOT address is a pointer to an address it does not make sense to add any offset to it. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
