binutils 2.8.1.0.20

[Ian Lance Taylor]

   From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
   Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 08:03:16 -0800 (PST)

   > I think this release might be a bit buggy.
   > 
   > This compiling octave 2.0.9.98:
   > 
   > g77 -c -fPIC -O3 scaleg.f -o pic/scaleg.o
   > /tmp/cca19344.s: Assembler messages:
   > /tmp/cca19344.s:135: Error: unrecognized characters `@GOTOFF(%ebx)' in expression

   I was told that the old binutils and g77/gcc were wrong on that.
   I understand both binutils and g77/gcc are fixed in the latest
   version. Ian, Richard, am I right? BTW, can Richard's patch
   go into 1.0.2?

I believe this is correct.  gcc used to incorrectly put @GOTOFF at the
end of the instruction, and gas used to silently ignore it.

   Ian, Richard, did the old binutils and g77/gcc generate working binary
   on that?

I believe the code did work, but arguably not correctly.  The wrong
relocation type was generated, so you would up with a relocation in
your .text segment which the dynamic linker would have to resolve.

Ian