.eh_frame section

[Richard Henderson]

On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 06:38:03PM -0400, meissner@cygnus.com wrote:
> | Most architectures have a word sized pc-relative relocation, but few
> | (none?) provide a pseudo-op to use it.  So there we are.
> 
> On the other hand, doing:
> 
> 	.long .-label
> 
> (or .word, .etc.) will often times generate the approprate relocation.

When "label" is external, no assembler I've found can handle it.
I tried gas (alpha, i386), Irix 6, Solaris 2.5, DU 4.0b.

The last two were cute in that they didn't complain, but neither
did they generate a reloc of any sort.


r~