diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index fa4799a6bc..318a8ad0fb 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2020-07-01  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+	* config.bfd: Obsolete xc16x.
+
 2020-06-30  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
 
 	* archures.c (bfd_mach_i386_nacl): Removed.
diff --git a/bfd/config.bfd b/bfd/config.bfd
index 2fa2acb8a3..14523caf0c 100644
--- a/bfd/config.bfd
+++ b/bfd/config.bfd
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ case $targ in
     exit 1
     ;;
  powerpcle-*-pe | powerpcle-*-winnt* | powerpcle-*-cygwin* | \
+ xc16x-*-* | \
  null)
     if test "x$enable_obsolete" != xyes; then
       echo "*** Configuration $targ is obsolete." >&2
diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index b9840ab54e..88c5451ba0 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2020-07-01  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+	* config/tc-xc16x.c (md_apply_fix): Add FIXME.
+
 2020-07-01  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
 
 	* testsuite/gas/all/eqv-dot.d: xfail targets that set linkrelax
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-xc16x.c b/gas/config/tc-xc16x.c
index de2befc43f..3d78dc57c2 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-xc16x.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-xc16x.c
@@ -323,6 +323,8 @@ tc_gen_reloc (asection *section ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, fixS *fixp)
 void
 md_apply_fix (fixS *fixP, valueT *valP, segT seg ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
 {
+  /* FIXME: This absolute nonsense apparently is to make relative
+     jumps "work".  Of course, it breaks any other type of fixup.  */
   if (!strstr (seg->name,".debug"))
     {
       if (*valP < 128)