On Aug 15, 2019, Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > The immediate of lea is limited to +-2GB
... and we're talking about a code offset within a tiny translation unit, with both reference and referenced address within the same section. It would be very surprising if the offset got up to 2KB, let alone 2GB ;-) The reason the testcase even mentions absolute addresses AFAICT is not that it wishes to use them, it's that there's no portable way to use PC-relative addresses on IA-32 (*), so the test gives up on platforms that mandate PIC and goes with absolute addressing there. I'm pretty sure if it had a choice it would happily use PC-relative addressing, even with a reasonably short range, if that was readily available... (*) Something like 'call 1f; 1: popl %0; leal $foo-1b(%0), %0' is the closest to widely available I'm aware of, but the '1f/1b' notation is only available with GNU as AFAIK. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter he/him https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member GNU Toolchain Engineer Free Software Evangelist Hay que enGNUrecerse, pero sin perder la terGNUra jamás - Che GNUevara