BNE doing absolute jumps instead of relative

[jona250210]

I've been playing around with the compiler and I am not sure, if I understand the specification of RISC-V wrong, but from my understanding the jumps should be relative to the current PC. When testing this program

addi x4, x3, -5
add x5, x4, x0
test:
	sll x5, x5, x5
	bne x5, x4, test

this compiler outputs 00000000010000101001010001100011 for the BNE line, GNU as gives me 11111110010000101001111011100011. The imm part translates to 8 and -4 respectively. Am I correct that jumps are done absolutely? And if yes, can this be changed easily?