[Bug gas/288] New: expression resolved too early

[amodra at bigpond dot net dot au]

See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-07/msg00230.html

gas/expr.c around line 1278 says
          /* If we have an absolute symbol or a reg, then we know its
             value now.  */

This is *not* true.  A symbol equated to an expression may have an absolute
value, but not be resolvable immediately, such as when the expression involves
the subtraction of two symbols in the same segment but in different frags.

A simplified testcase is:

        .text
_start:
        .set x,0
        .long x
        .set x,.-_start
        .long x
        .balign 4
        .set x,.-_start
        .long x

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           Summary: expression resolved too early
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.15
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gas
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: amodra at bigpond dot net dot au
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org


http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288

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