From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:47:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: symbols.c (colon): Do not allow symbols to be created in the absolute section
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7cf108933bd1b2e94d4bd531583060262abd543c;p=binutils-gdb.git

symbols.c (colon): Do not allow symbols to be created in the absolute section
if WORKING_DOT_WORD is not defined and new_broken_words would require a new
frag to be created.
---

diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 9b4fb4be93c..1ba475db7a3 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 2002-09-20  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
 	* symbols.c (colon): Do not allow symbols to be created in the
-	absolute section.
+	absolute section if WORKING_DOT_WORD is not defined and
+	new_broken_words would require a new frag to be created.
 
 2002-09-20  Alan Modra  <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
 
diff --git a/gas/symbols.c b/gas/symbols.c
index c84b5b3a00e..feed3592049 100644
--- a/gas/symbols.c
+++ b/gas/symbols.c
@@ -287,13 +287,7 @@ colon (sym_name)		/* Just seen "x:" - rattle symbols & frags.  */
 {
   register symbolS *symbolP;	/* Symbol we are working with.  */
 
-  if (now_seg == absolute_section)
-    {
-      as_bad (_("cannot define symbol `%s' in absolute section"), sym_name);
-      return NULL;
-    }
-
-    /* Sun local labels go out of scope whenever a non-local symbol is
+  /* Sun local labels go out of scope whenever a non-local symbol is
      defined.  */
   if (LOCAL_LABELS_DOLLAR)
     {
@@ -319,6 +313,13 @@ colon (sym_name)		/* Just seen "x:" - rattle symbols & frags.  */
 
       extern const int md_short_jump_size;
       extern const int md_long_jump_size;
+
+      if (now_seg == absolute_section)
+	{
+	  as_bad (_("cannot define symbol `%s' in absolute section"), sym_name);
+	  return NULL;
+	}
+      
       possible_bytes = (md_short_jump_size
 			+ new_broken_words * md_long_jump_size);