Hi, I am having GNU gas related problems when compiling assembler files which contain jumps to external symbols, for example when jumping from an assembler to a C function. Using binutils-2.15 GAS will produce a "Cannot branch to undefined symbol" error. Applying the patch at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-04/msg00476.html, which creates an "allow_branch_to_undefined" option I am able to succesfully compile an executable. I am happy with this as I only need to apply the option to the problematic files and it does not change the behaviour of gas in general. Now, my crosscompiler toolchain is based on binutils-2.13. When I try to apply the same patch to it, I get a different error, "Can not represent BFD_RELOC_16_PCREL_S2 relocation in this object file format". There are various posts around referring to this problems. As a consequence I have read different opinions, solutions that apply to specific version or binutils, solutions more or less accepted by everyone, and as usual I am very confused. If I compile with "-mno-abicalls -fno-pic" gas reports no errors (which I believe is what the Linux kernel does), but I need to link with some pic libraries which use glibc, so this is not a valid solution for me. I am happy with the patch for binutils-2.15, and I would need a solution for binutils-2.13. Can anybody offer any help? Thanks, Alex
