Bug in gas from binutils-2.13.2.1

[Jeff Rubin]

This is a mips-specific bug report.
In the file gas/config/tc-mips.c
in the routine "macro" for the case
M_DLA_AB, with mips_big_got == 1,
mips_pic == SVR4_PIC, and HAVE_NEWABI
(in my case -64).  As the comment beginning
"For NEWABI, we want ..." indicates, the relocation
BFD_RELOC_MIPS_CALL16 should be used in the
tempreg == PIC_CALL_REG case only for an external
symbol.  But the code uses that relocation without
creating a frag_var for the local symbol case.
(Now I'm starting to get on thin ice ...)  It also
doesn't seem to call frag_grow before the first
call to macro_build.  I have a patch that I am
testing, but I am very unsure if what I am doing
is correct.  Let me know if you want it.

Also, I noticed that mips_big_got is set to 1
unconditionally for HAVE_NEWABI.  I don't read
the discussion lists so I may have missed a discussion
about that.  But is seems wrong to me.  I have removed
that code in my version.

Jeff Rubin
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