Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Jul 5 09:48:00 GMT 2005

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Hi Zack,


> It *appears*, based on inspection of the old tc-arm.c, that the WinCE
> special case for PC-relative offsets is meant to apply only to branch
> instructions.  I could be wrong about that.  However, even if it
> isn't, surely it must only apply to relocations surviving into the
> object file.  As there are no relocations in this object file, the
> offsets that are coded into the instructions should be correct for the
> architecture -- in other words, they should be the same on
> arm-wince-pe as on arm-elf.
> 
> Thoughts?  If I am correct, I propose to apply the appended patch plus
> a testsuite patch to cease special-casing the above tests.

I think that you are right.  I think that what you have encountered was 
basically a bug in the WinCE port which was hacked-around but never 
properly solved.

> zw
> 
>         * gas/config/tc-arm.c (encode_arm_addr_mode_2)
>         (encode_arm_addr_mode_3, encode_arm_cp_address): Do not
>         adjust X_add_number by -8 for pc-relative when TE_WINCE is
>         defined.

Approved - please apply.

Cheers
   Nick

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