Complement commit 
88a7ef168927 ("MIPS16/GAS: Restore unsupported
relocation diagnostics") and also propagate constant expressions, either
already reduced from absolute symbol references or created from literals
in the first place, used as a PC-relative operand with the MIPS16 LA,
LW, DLA and LD synthetic instructions to relaxation, matching the way
forward absolute symbol references have been handled as from the commit
referred and letting relaxation produce any necessary relocations, if
possible, for the absolute value requested to be reproduced at the run
time.
Call `symbol_append' for any expression symbol created for the purpose
of MIPS16 relaxation as with constant expressions now propagated from
earlier on such symbols may make it through and have R_MIPS16_PC16_S1
relocations emitted against, and therefore need to appear in the symbol
table produced.
	gas/
	* config/tc-mips.c (append_insn): Call `symbol_append' for any
	expression symbol created for MIPS16 relaxation.
	(match_mips16_insn): Don't encode a constant value as an
	immediate with a PC-relative operand.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-pcrel-absolute-1.d: New test.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-1.d: New test.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-2.d: New test.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1.d: New
	test.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-n32-1.d: New test.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-n32-2.d: New test.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n32-1.d: New
	test.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-n64-1.d: New test.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-n64-2.d: New test.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n64-1.d: New
	test.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-pcrel-absolute-1.l: New stderr
	output.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-pcrel-absolute-1.s: New test source.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-1.s: New test
	source.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-2.s: New test
	source.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1.s: New test
	source.
	* testsuite/gas/mips/mips.exp: Run the new tests.
	ld/
	* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-1.d: New test.
	* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-2.d: New test.
	* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1.d: New
	test.
	* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-n32-1.d: New
	test.
	* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-n32-2.d: New
	test.
	* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n32-1.d:
	New test.
	* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-n64-1.d: New
	test.
	* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-n64-2.d: New
	test.
	* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n64-1.d:
	New test.
	* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips-elf.exp: Run the new tests.
 
+2017-05-02  Maciej W. Rozycki  <macro@imgtec.com>
+
+       * config/tc-mips.c (append_insn): Call `symbol_append' for any
+       expression symbol created for MIPS16 relaxation.
+       (match_mips16_insn): Don't encode a constant value as an
+       immediate with a PC-relative operand.
+
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-pcrel-absolute-1.d: New test.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-1.d: New test.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-2.d: New test.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1.d: New
+       test.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-n32-1.d: New test.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-n32-2.d: New test.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n32-1.d: New
+       test.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-n64-1.d: New test.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-n64-2.d: New test.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n64-1.d: New
+       test.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-pcrel-absolute-1.l: New stderr
+       output.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-pcrel-absolute-1.s: New test source.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-1.s: New test
+       source.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-2.s: New test
+       source.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1.s: New test
+       source.
+       * testsuite/gas/mips/mips.exp: Run the new tests.
+
 2017-04-27  Maciej W. Rozycki  <macro@imgtec.com>
 
        * config/tc-mips.c (mips16_pcrel_val): New function, factored
 
       else
        {
          symbol = make_expr_symbol (address_expr);
+         symbol_append (symbol, symbol_lastP, &symbol_rootP, &symbol_lastP);
          offset = 0;
        }
       add_relaxed_insn (ip, 4, 0,
   const char *args;
   const struct mips_operand *operand;
   const struct mips_operand *ext_operand;
+  bfd_boolean pcrel = FALSE;
   int required_insn_length;
   struct mips_arg_info arg;
   int relax_char;
            }
          else if (relax_char
                   && offset_expr.X_op == O_constant
+                  && !pcrel
                   && calculate_reloc (*offset_reloc,
                                       offset_expr.X_add_number,
                                       &value))
       if (!operand)
        abort ();
 
-      if (operand->type != OP_PCREL)
+      if (operand->type == OP_PCREL)
+       pcrel = TRUE;
+      else
        {
          ext_operand = decode_mips16_operand (c, TRUE);
          if (operand != ext_operand)
 
     run_dump_test "mips16-pcrel-addend-2"
     run_dump_test "mips16-pcrel-addend-3"
     run_dump_test "mips16-pcrel-absolute"
+    run_dump_test "mips16-pcrel-absolute-1"
     run_dump_test "mips16-branch-reloc-0"
     run_dump_test "mips16-branch-reloc-1"
     run_dump_test "mips16-branch-reloc-2"
     run_dump_test "mips16-branch-addend-4"
     run_dump_test "mips16-branch-addend-5"
     run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute"
+    run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-1"
+    run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-2"
     run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-addend"
+    run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1"
     if $has_newabi {
        run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-n32"
+       run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-n32-1"
+       run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-n32-2"
        run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n32"
+       run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n32-1"
        run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-n64"
+       run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-n64-1"
+       run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-n64-2"
        run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n64"
+       run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n64-1"
     }
     run_dump_test "mips16-absolute-reloc-0"
     run_dump_test "mips16-absolute-reloc-1"
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 branch to absolute expression 1
+#as: -32
+
+.*: +file format .*mips.*
+
+Disassembly of section \.text:
+       \.\.\.
+[0-9a-f]+ <[^>]*> f7ff 101e    b       00001000 <foo>
+[      ]*[0-9a-f]+: R_MIPS16_PC16_S1   L0\001
+[0-9a-f]+ <[^>]*> f7ff 601e    bteqz   00001004 <foo\+0x4>
+[      ]*[0-9a-f]+: R_MIPS16_PC16_S1   L0\001
+[0-9a-f]+ <[^>]*> f7ff 611e    btnez   00001008 <foo\+0x8>
+[      ]*[0-9a-f]+: R_MIPS16_PC16_S1   L0\001
+[0-9a-f]+ <[^>]*> f7ff 221e    beqz    v0,0000100c <foo\+0xc>
+[      ]*[0-9a-f]+: R_MIPS16_PC16_S1   L0\001
+[0-9a-f]+ <[^>]*> f7ff 2a1e    bnez    v0,00001010 <foo\+0x10>
+[      ]*[0-9a-f]+: R_MIPS16_PC16_S1   L0\001
+[0-9a-f]+ <[^>]*> 6500         nop
+       \.\.\.
 
--- /dev/null
+       .text
+
+       .space  0x1000
+
+       .set    bar, 0x1235
+
+       .globl  foo
+       .ent    foo
+       .set    mips16
+foo:
+       b       bar
+       bteqz   bar
+       btnez   bar
+       beqz    $2, bar
+       bnez    $2, bar
+       nop
+       .set    nomips16
+       .end    foo
+
+# Force some (non-delay-slot) zero bytes, to make 'objdump' print ...
+       .align  4, 0
+       .space  16
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 branch to absolute expression 2
+#as: -32
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute-1.d
 
--- /dev/null
+       .text
+
+       .space  0x1000
+
+       .globl  foo
+       .ent    foo
+       .set    mips16
+foo:
+       b       0x1235
+       bteqz   0x1235
+       btnez   0x1235
+       beqz    $2, 0x1235
+       bnez    $2, 0x1235
+       nop
+       .set    nomips16
+       .end    foo
+
+# Force some (non-delay-slot) zero bytes, to make 'objdump' print ...
+       .align  4, 0
+       .space  16
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 branch to absolute expression with addend 1
+#as: -32
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute-1.d
 
--- /dev/null
+       .text
+
+       .space  0x1000
+
+       .set    bar, 0x12345679
+
+       .globl  foo
+       .ent    foo
+       .set    mips16
+foo:
+       b       bar + 0x1234
+       bteqz   bar + 0x1234
+       btnez   bar + 0x1234
+       beqz    $2, bar + 0x1234
+       bnez    $2, bar + 0x1234
+       nop
+       .set    nomips16
+       .end    foo
+
+# Force some (non-delay-slot) zero bytes, to make 'objdump' print ...
+       .align  4, 0
+       .space  16
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 branch to absolute expression with addend 1 (n32)
+#as: -n32 -march=from-abi
+#source: mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1.s
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n32.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 branch to absolute expression with addend 1 (n64)
+#as: -64 -march=from-abi
+#source: mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1.s
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n64.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 branch to absolute expression 1 (n32)
+#as: -n32 -march=from-abi
+#source: mips16-branch-absolute-1.s
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute-n32.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 branch to absolute expression 2 (n32)
+#as: -n32 -march=from-abi
+#source: mips16-branch-absolute-2.s
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute-n32.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 branch to absolute expression 1 (n64)
+#as: -64 -march=from-abi
+#source: mips16-branch-absolute-1.s
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute-n64.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 branch to absolute expression 2 (n64)
+#as: -64 -march=from-abi
+#source: mips16-branch-absolute-2.s
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute-n64.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#name: MIPS16 PC-relative reference to absolute expression 1
+#as: -32
+#error-output: mips16-pcrel-absolute-1.l
 
--- /dev/null
+.*: Assembler messages:
+.*:10: Error: unsupported relocation
+.*:11: Error: unsupported relocation
 
--- /dev/null
+       .text
+
+       .space  0x1000
+
+       .set    bar, 0x1234
+
+       .ent    foo
+       .set    mips16
+foo:
+       la      $2, bar
+       lw      $2, bar
+       nop
+       .set    nomips16
+       .end    foo
+
+# Force some (non-delay-slot) zero bytes, to make 'objdump' print ...
+       .align  4, 0
+       .space  16
 
+2017-05-02  Maciej W. Rozycki  <macro@imgtec.com>
+
+       * testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-1.d: New test.
+       * testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-2.d: New test.
+       * testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1.d: New
+       test.
+       * testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-n32-1.d: New
+       test.
+       * testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-n32-2.d: New
+       test.
+       * testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n32-1.d:
+       New test.
+       * testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-n64-1.d: New
+       test.
+       * testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-n64-2.d: New
+       test.
+       * testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n64-1.d:
+       New test.
+       * testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips-elf.exp: Run the new tests.
+
 2017-05-02  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
 
        * testsuite/ld-i386/tls.exp: Add -Wl,--no-as-needed to
 
 run_dump_test "mips16-branch-addend-2" [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(o32)]]
 run_dump_test "mips16-branch-addend-3" [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(o32)]]
 run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute" [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(o32)]]
+run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-1" [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(o32)]]
+run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-2" [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(o32)]]
 run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-addend" \
                                        [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(o32)]]
+run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1" \
+                                       [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(o32)]]
 if $has_newabi {
     run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-n32" \
                                        [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(n32)]]
+    run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-n32-1" \
+                                       [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(n32)]]
+    run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-n32-2" \
+                                       [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(n32)]]
     run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n32" \
                                        [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(n32)]]
+    run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n32-1" \
+                                       [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(n32)]]
     run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-n64" \
                                        [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(n64)]]
+    run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-n64-1" \
+                                       [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(n64)]]
+    run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-n64-2" \
+                                       [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(n64)]]
     run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n64" \
                                        [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(n64)]]
+    run_dump_test "mips16-branch-absolute-addend-n64-1" \
+                                       [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(n64)]]
 }
 
 run_dump_test "micromips-branch-absolute" [list [list ld $abi_ldflags(o32)]]
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 link branch to absolute expression 1
+#source: ../../../gas/testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-1.s
+#as: -EB -32
+#ld: -EB -Ttext 0 -e foo
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 link branch to absolute expression 2
+#source: ../../../gas/testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-2.s
+#as: -EB -32
+#ld: -EB -Ttext 0 -e foo
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 link branch to absolute expression with addend 1
+#source: ../../../gas/testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1.s
+#as: -EB -32
+#ld: -EB -Ttext 0x12340000 -e foo
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute-addend.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 link branch to absolute expression with addend 1 (n32)
+#source: ../../../gas/testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1.s
+#as: -EB -n32 -march=from-abi
+#ld: -EB -Ttext 0x12340000 -e foo
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute-addend.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 link branch to absolute expression with addend 1 (n64)
+#source: ../../../gas/testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-addend-1.s
+#as: -EB -64 -march=from-abi
+#ld: -EB -Ttext 0x12340000 -e foo
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute-addend.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 link branch to absolute expression 1 (n32)
+#source: ../../../gas/testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-1.s
+#as: -EB -n32 -march=from-abi
+#ld: -EB -Ttext 0 -e foo
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 link branch to absolute expression 2 (n32)
+#source: ../../../gas/testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-2.s
+#as: -EB -n32 -march=from-abi
+#ld: -EB -Ttext 0 -e foo
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 link branch to absolute expression 1 (n64)
+#source: ../../../gas/testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-1.s
+#as: -EB -64 -march=from-abi
+#ld: -EB -Ttext 0 -e foo
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute.d
 
--- /dev/null
+#objdump: -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn
+#name: MIPS16 link branch to absolute expression 2 (n64)
+#source: ../../../gas/testsuite/gas/mips/mips16-branch-absolute-2.s
+#as: -EB -64 -march=from-abi
+#ld: -EB -Ttext 0 -e foo
+#dump: mips16-branch-absolute.d