+ if (sym_sec->sec_info_type == SEC_INFO_TYPE_MERGE
+ && (sym_sec->flags & SEC_MERGE))
+ {
+ /* At this stage in linking, no SEC_MERGE symbol has been
+ adjusted, so all references to such symbols need to be
+ passed through _bfd_merged_section_offset. (Later, in
+ relocate_section, all SEC_MERGE symbols *except* for
+ section symbols have been adjusted.)
+
+ gas may reduce relocations against symbols in SEC_MERGE
+ sections to a relocation against the section symbol when
+ the original addend was zero. When the reloc is against
+ a section symbol we should include the addend in the
+ offset passed to _bfd_merged_section_offset, since the
+ location of interest is the original symbol. On the
+ other hand, an access to "sym+addend" where "sym" is not
+ a section symbol should not include the addend; Such an
+ access is presumed to be an offset from "sym"; The
+ location of interest is just "sym". */
+ if (symtype == STT_SECTION)
+ symval += rel->r_addend;
+
+ symval = _bfd_merged_section_offset (abfd, &sym_sec,
+ elf_section_data (sym_sec)->sec_info,
+ symval);
+
+ if (symtype != STT_SECTION)
+ symval += rel->r_addend;
+ }
+ else
+ symval += rel->r_addend;
+
+ symval += sec_addr (sym_sec);