Re: VAX addressing modes

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> 	R_VAX_RELATIVE   *ABS*+0x676cf

>> My knowledge of VAX addressing modes is tiny, so [...]

> I'm not sure I understand the problem.  This has nothing to do with
> VAX addressing modes, but is a question of how relocatable symbols
> are handled in the compiler, object file and linker.

The part after the first comma is true - but relocations for a given
architecture do have _something_ to do with the addressing modes that
architecture makes available.  For example, you won't find a
high-22-bits or low-10-bits relocation in a VAX file - but you may in a
SPARC file, because of the SPARC sethi paradigm.

(No, I can't speak to the original question, which is why I didn't
respond.  I know the VAX addressing modes fairly well, but I know next
to nothing about the relocations supported by the VAX toolchain.  The
quoted relocation looks inconsistent to me, calling itself RELATIVE but
describing the target as *ABS*, which looks like `absolute' to me.  So
either it's broken, in which case I have no idea why or how it's
broken, or it's not, in which case I don't understand VAX relocations
enough to say anything useful.)

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