"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There were discussions as to whether reuse R_MIPS_PC16 for branches or not. Unfortunately I don't remember the conclusion -- you'd have to find it out yourself.
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2003-02/msg00447.html (follow thread) Seems, binutils people have removed this in more recent binutils versions. MIPS SDE is more conservative there. -- -=AV=-