creates an object file where "readelf -r test.o" indicates a R_X86_64_PC32 relocation, whereas I'd expect a R_X86_64_PLT32 relocation instead.

"format ELF" seems to get this right, generating a R_386_PLT32 (rather than R_386_PC32) relocation, but ELF64 seems to forget that I put the PLT operator there.

Thank you for the report. It's fixed in 1.71.55.

At the same time I have also updated the ELF formatting macros in fasmg package so that they support PLT with ELF64 format. There is a slight difference in syntax, EXTRN simply defines additional symbols in PLT namespace (having PLT as an operator does not make much sense, since it can only be applied to unmodified external symbol, but in fasm it was easier to implement it as such, with fasmg it is the other way). The same example assembled with fasmg would look like: If you have any more troubles with fasm's ELF formatter, please give fasmg macros a try - it is much easier to tweak and extend them.

Thanks, I can confirm that 1.71.55 fixes it. Thanks for the tip about fasmg as well -- I wasn't sure how far it had progressed.

It still does not have macros for instruction sets from AVX up and for COFF output formatting, but I plan to add them sooner or later. You can already assemble a lot of things the same as with fasm, the only problem being that when macros do absolutely everything from ground up, it is of course slow (for instance, on my tablet fasmg needs almost 10 seconds to self-assemble through macros).