From 9f269a7285fd80b4c191305994b0af006c3fa1f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:57:41 +0000
Subject: Do not allow symbols to be created in the absolute section.

---
 gas/symbols.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'gas/symbols.c')

diff --git a/gas/symbols.c b/gas/symbols.c
index 6d8147c..c84b5b3 100644
--- a/gas/symbols.c
+++ b/gas/symbols.c
@@ -287,7 +287,13 @@ colon (sym_name)		/* Just seen "x:" - rattle symbols & frags.  */
 {
   register symbolS *symbolP;	/* Symbol we are working with.  */
 
-  /* Sun local labels go out of scope whenever a non-local symbol is
+  if (now_seg == absolute_section)
+    {
+      as_bad (_("cannot define symbol `%s' in absolute section"), sym_name);
+      return NULL;
+    }
+
+    /* Sun local labels go out of scope whenever a non-local symbol is
      defined.  */
   if (LOCAL_LABELS_DOLLAR)
     {
-- 
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