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On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 07:53:41PM -0700, reed kotler wrote: > Basically, labels that are not landing pad symbols that are inserted > for exception handling > and dwarf purposes, must declared : > > $mysym = . > > as opposed to: > > $mysym: Can't you use $mysym +/- 1 in the landing pad reference to work this idiosyncracy? Joerg

mips16 has some unusual requirements for label symbols in .s. I think that arm thumb has the same issue but have not located yet how this is handled. When you have a label of an instruction in mips16, when you reference the label, the linker adds a 1 to the address. When you call an odd numbered address, the procesor switches to mips16 mode and when you call an even numbered address it