From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:15:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: 	PR ld/12066
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=abf4be64df114dbca199fc2c2fbf52fa17492649;p=binutils-gdb.git

	PR ld/12066
	* ldexp.c (fold_name): Treat absolute symbols as plain numbers.
	* ld.texinfo (Expression Section): Don't say absolute symbols
	are addresses.
---

diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index 14a7f7c7ae5..4f64be44f73 100644
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-10-01  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+	PR ld/12066
+	* ldexp.c (fold_name): Treat absolute symbols as plain numbers.
+	* ld.texinfo (Expression Section): Don't say absolute symbols
+	are addresses.
+
 2010-09-29  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
 
 	* ldlang.c (lang_place_orphans): Zero vma when relocatable or non-load
diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo
index 28c59f2a79f..206068a62f5 100644
--- a/ld/ld.texinfo
+++ b/ld/ld.texinfo
@@ -5453,11 +5453,11 @@ value of a section relative symbol.  On the other hand, an absolute
 symbol will retain the same value throughout any further link
 operations.
 
-Some terms in linker expressions are addresses.  This is true of all
-symbols and for builtin functions that return an address, such as
-@code{ADDR}, @code{LOADADDR}, @code{ORIGIN} and @code{SEGMENT_START}.
-Other terms are simply numbers, or are builtin functions that return a
-non-address value, such as @code{LENGTH}.
+Some terms in linker expressions are addresses.  This is true of
+section relative symbols and for builtin functions that return an
+address, such as @code{ADDR}, @code{LOADADDR}, @code{ORIGIN} and
+@code{SEGMENT_START}.  Other terms are simply numbers, or are builtin
+functions that return a non-address value, such as @code{LENGTH}.
 
 When the linker evaluates an expression, the result depends on where
 the expression is located in a linker script.  Expressions appearing
diff --git a/ld/ldexp.c b/ld/ldexp.c
index 0549f19575b..de7f9f29bc1 100644
--- a/ld/ldexp.c
+++ b/ld/ldexp.c
@@ -553,6 +553,8 @@ fold_name (etree_type *tree)
 			     " referenced in expression\n"),
 			   tree->name.name);
 		}
+	      else if (output_section == bfd_abs_section_ptr)
+		new_number (h->u.def.value + h->u.def.section->output_offset);
 	      else
 		new_rel (h->u.def.value + h->u.def.section->output_offset,
 			 output_section);