Lattice C
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You've got the same situation here with data, text, etc. (the 68000 is
particularly well suited for such distinctions..in fact, it won't let you do a
pc-relative write to a destination operand since that's a step in the direction
of self-modifying code). Frankly, I don't know whether the loader handles
absolute addressing or not. I'm just so used to writing position independent
code that I've never thought much about what it would be like _not_ to write
code that way. The situation's a bit different on the Mac since your code
segments can actually be moved around WHILE EXECUTING, so a loader couldn't
handle that much juggling.
pea myThing(PC)
is one way to invoke pc-relative addressing. There's also pc-relative with an
index:
pea myThing(pc,d0.l)
With the Amiga assembler an instruction of the type
move label,d0
also invokes pc-relative addressing. Likewise, the instruction
move label(d0),d1
invokes pc-relative with index addressing.