2010/6/3 Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com>:
> Hello!
>
> 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.
>
> Also of interest is support from sun as and darwin assembler for
> similar instructions. I guess darwin should check something like:
>
> addl L_x$non_lazy_ptr-L00000000001$pb(%ecx), %eax
>
> Ultimately, I would like to remove checks involving
> pic_symbolic_operands, but removing them on 64bit would be OK, too.
>
> Thanks,
> Uros.
>
Please make sure this want make troubles for x64 target. COFF doesn't
support this.
Kai
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