[PATCH] D14700: [mips][freebsd] Explicitly select PC-relative Personality and LSDA encodings.

[Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-commits]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:29:02AM -0500, Rafael Espíndola via llvm-commits wrote:
> It is unclear. Without knowing what is an actual gas/ld bug and what
> is a reasonable limitation. Why is gas on linux rejecting indirect
> pcrel? Is it at least acknowledge as a bug or are they aware of some
> reason to reject it that we are not?

Because older versions of ld don't have a way to express pcrel
relocations between different sections. Newer versions of LD abuse some
relocation for that, IIRC.

Joerg