diff -Nru binutils-ia16-elf-2.32.0-20200926.18/debian/changelog binutils-ia16-elf-2.32.0-20200927.06/debian/changelog
--- binutils-ia16-elf-2.32.0-20200926.18/debian/changelog	2020-09-26 19:06:51.000000000 +0000
+++ binutils-ia16-elf-2.32.0-20200927.06/debian/changelog	2020-09-27 15:53:50.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-binutils-ia16-elf (2.32.0-20200926.18-ppa200926190~bionic) bionic; urgency=medium
+binutils-ia16-elf (2.32.0-20200927.06-ppa200927155~bionic) bionic; urgency=medium
 
   * Release.
 
- -- user <user@localhost.localdomain>  Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:06:51 +0000
+ -- user <user@localhost.localdomain>  Sun, 27 Sep 2020 15:53:50 +0000
diff -Nru binutils-ia16-elf-2.32.0-20200926.18/gas/config/tc-i386.c binutils-ia16-elf-2.32.0-20200927.06/gas/config/tc-i386.c
--- binutils-ia16-elf-2.32.0-20200926.18/gas/config/tc-i386.c	2020-09-26 18:38:03.000000000 +0000
+++ binutils-ia16-elf-2.32.0-20200927.06/gas/config/tc-i386.c	2020-09-27 06:35:21.000000000 +0000
@@ -7885,10 +7885,13 @@
   else
     fix_new_exp (frag_now, p - frag_now->fr_literal, size,
 		 i.op[1].imms, 0, reloc (size, 0, 0, i.reloc[1]));
-  if (i.op[0].imms->X_op != O_constant)
-    as_bad (_("can't handle non absolute segment in `%s'"),
-	    i.tm.name);
-  md_number_to_chars (p + size, (valueT) i.op[0].imms->X_add_number, 2);
+
+  p += size;
+  if (i.op[0].imms->X_op == O_constant)
+    md_number_to_chars (p, (valueT) i.op[0].imms->X_add_number, 2);
+  else
+    fix_new_exp (frag_now, p - frag_now->fr_literal, 2,
+		 i.op[0].imms, 0, reloc (2, 0, 0, i.reloc[0]));
 }
 
 #if defined (OBJ_ELF) || defined (OBJ_MAYBE_ELF)