Re: symbol_ref constants

[Sanjiv Kumar Gupta <sanjiv dot gupta at oracle dot com>]

Nathan Sidwell wrote:

> Sanjiv Kumar Gupta wrote:
>
> > calculated by linker. Now
> >   add r1, foo
> >   add r1, 10
> >   add r1, -10
> > are okay but   add r1, foo + 10
> >   add r1, -10 are not, since (foo + 10)  may  overflow during
> > relocation, so the value (foo + 10) && 0xff inserted
> > by linker is not correct.
>
>
> What is stopping the value of 'foo' itself being > 255?
>
> nathan
Programmer will get an overflow error for that during linking.

But the problem here is that with foo = 255, the code works without -O2, but
not with -O2, which looks strange. Since -O2 (CSE)
combines
 add r1, foo
 add r1, 10
to
 add r1, foo + 10

Thanks.
--Sanjiv