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Relaxation is a generic term used when the size of some instruction or data depends upon the value of some symbol or other data.
GAS knows to relax a particular type of PC relative relocation using a table. You can also define arbitrarily complex forms of relaxation yourself.
5.1 Relaxing with a table 5.2 General relaxing