[Bug gas/22791] PLT32 should be used for 32-bit PC-relative branches

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22791

--- Comment #17 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Rafael Ávila de Espíndola from comment #16)
> > > If your argument is that you can always treat PC32 relocations on branches
> > > as if they were PLT32 relocations, why not just have the compiler emit 
> > > PLT32
> > > relocations in the first place?
> > 
> > Yes, this patch does that:
> > 
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-02/msg00074.html
> 
> If I understand it correctly, the idea is to generate a R_X86_64_PLT32 for
> "call foo" but a R_86_64_PC32 for ".long foo - .". If that is indeed what
> the patch is doing, I love it :-)

Yes, that is what patch does.  My current patch is at

https://github.com/hjl-tools/binutils-gdb/commit/80de23823c97db558436c9ad13d6728f43329706

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