Assembler bug blocking Thumb-2 kernel builds

[Dave Martin]

Hi all,

I've hit a probable assembler bug trying to build a Thumb-2 kernel:

Trying to assemble the attached file, I get:

arch/arm/kernel/relocate_kernel.S: Assembler messages:
arch/arm/kernel/relocate_kernel.S:10: Error: invalid offset, value too
big (0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFC)
arch/arm/kernel/relocate_kernel.S:11: Error: invalid offset, value too
big (0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFC)
arch/arm/kernel/relocate_kernel.S:58: Error: invalid offset, value too
big (0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFC)
arch/arm/kernel/relocate_kernel.S:59: Error: invalid offset, value too
big (0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFC)

The code appears correct and resonable, except that there should be a
.align directive before the data words at the end of the file (but
adding this doesn't fix the error)

Assembling in ARM (i.e., without -mthumb), or deleting the .globl
lines associated with the affected target symbols, the problem goes
away.

I believe this may be already by tracked by CodeSourcery as is issue #8775 (?)


Has anyone hit this issue before?  Is it fixed upstream?

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers
---Dave
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