From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:57:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Do not allow symbols to be created in the absolute section.
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Do not allow symbols to be created in the absolute section.
---

diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index ab054abdb07..9b4fb4be93c 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-09-20  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* symbols.c (colon): Do not allow symbols to be created in the
+	absolute section.
+
 2002-09-20  Alan Modra  <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
 
 	* expr.c (expr): Simplify foo-foo here.
diff --git a/gas/symbols.c b/gas/symbols.c
index 6d8147ce84a..c84b5b3a00e 100644
--- a/gas/symbols.c
+++ b/gas/symbols.c
@@ -287,7 +287,13 @@ colon (sym_name)		/* Just seen "x:" - rattle symbols & frags.  */
 {
   register symbolS *symbolP;	/* Symbol we are working with.  */
 
-  /* Sun local labels go out of scope whenever a non-local symbol is
+  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
      defined.  */
   if (LOCAL_LABELS_DOLLAR)
     {