https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68178
--- Comment #7 from Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> --- I agree that the PC-relative relocation in the literal pool is acceptable and what the compiler should be doing. However, the form of the expression the compiler puts in the assembly output does not actually generate a relocation; instead it generates a 'fixup' that the assembler resolves before generating the output object file. I claim it's wrong for the assembler to do this, but Alan Modra claims it's right in comment 8 on binutils bug 18561. I believe a variant of Nick Clifton's patch (from comment 6) that applies to all targets should be applied, eliminating consideration of the 'strict' option to S_FORCE_RELOC for weak definitions since this 'optimization' is always wrong for weak defs. Possibly the whole 'strict' argument should be removed; the other cases where it's used may be wrong too.
