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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2002-09-20 06:57:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2002-09-20 06:57:41 +0000 |
| commit | 9a64bbcb599d942e9fdf876bed2fbdff15339311 (patch) | |
| tree | 9dce3ae2768adef587e5093239cf2e769dfe7ce6 | |
| parent | e15a8bff82d9a7d350ce036ab48006e799ee2885 (diff) | |
| download | binutils-redhat-9a64bbcb599d942e9fdf876bed2fbdff15339311.tar.gz | |
Do not allow symbols to be created in the absolute section.
| -rw-r--r-- | gas/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gas/symbols.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog index ab054abdb0..9b4fb4be93 100644 --- a/gas/ChangeLog +++ b/gas/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2002-09-20 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> + + * symbols.c (colon): Do not allow symbols to be created in the + absolute section. + 2002-09-20 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> * expr.c (expr): Simplify foo-foo here. diff --git a/gas/symbols.c b/gas/symbols.c index 6d8147ce84..c84b5b3a00 100644 --- a/gas/symbols.c +++ b/gas/symbols.c @@ -287,7 +287,13 @@ colon (sym_name) /* Just seen "x:" - rattle symbols & frags. */ { register symbolS *symbolP; /* Symbol we are working with. */ - /* Sun local labels go out of scope whenever a non-local symbol is + if (now_seg == absolute_section) + { + as_bad (_("cannot define symbol `%s' in absolute section"), sym_name); + return NULL; + } + + /* Sun local labels go out of scope whenever a non-local symbol is defined. */ if (LOCAL_LABELS_DOLLAR) { |