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Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:10:15 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: [winter-gcc AT bfw-online DOT de: DJGPP COFF relocation in absolute sections]
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Could someone please see if the bug reported below affects DJGPP at
all?

From: 
To: dj AT delorie DOT com
Subject: DJGPP COFF relocation in absolute sections

Hi DJ,

since knowledge on your toolchain seems to be rare and activity on the mailing
list rather low, I would like to ask you about the COFF variant DJGPP is using.
Recently changes in binutils broke support for COFF for SCO which we are
(unfortunately) using:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19623

COFF SCO seems to dictate that symbols in absolute sections shall not be
relocated, yet the patch in binutils suggest that DJGPP/COFF might expect that.
Maybe binutils should (as initially suggested) conditionally switch behaviour
for such symbols in such sections depending on the COFF target architecture.
However I am really out of my depth on this topic and appreciate any insights.