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From: James E Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: PR 834: IA64: Change br to brl for "far" branches when possible
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 23:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115937357.16805.11.camel@aretha.corp.specifixinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050512213633.GA6755@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 14:36, Richard Henderson wrote:
> We already assume a 64-bit type, for instance in elfNN_ia64_install_value.
> I see that elf32-ia64.lo is in BFD32_BACKENDS; that's probably a mistake.

I fixed that mistake about 6 weeks ago.

> I see no reason to complicate things by doing anything other than assuming
> a 64-bit type is available when compiling for ia64.  Every reasonable
> compiler does support such a type.

HJ has mentioned that he would like to split elfxx-ia64.c into separate
elf32-ia64.c and elf64-ia64.c files.  If this is done, then the
elf32-ia64.c file probably should not require long long support. 
Otherwise, I agree with you.  All IA-64 machines are 64-bit machines,
and there should never be any need to avoid use of 64-bit types in the
current elfxx-ia64.c file, or the proposed elf64-ia64.c.

There is some 32-bit code in elfxx-ia64.c, but that was a mistake, and
was done before elf32-ia64.c was removed from BFD32_BACKENDS.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-12 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-12 16:17 H. J. Lu
2005-05-12 17:14 ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-12 20:05   ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-12 20:55     ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-12 22:36       ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-12 23:08         ` James E Wilson [this message]
2005-05-12 23:31           ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-12 23:40             ` James E Wilson
2005-05-13  0:58               ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-13  1:11         ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-13  7:40           ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-13  1:19         ` PATCH: Undo the elfNN_ia64_relax_brl change H. J. Lu
2005-05-13  7:47 PATCH: PR 834: IA64: Change br to brl for "far" branches when possible Jan Beulich
2005-05-13 14:24 ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-13 17:35   ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-16 23:47     ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-13 18:29   ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-13 18:32     ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-17 10:22 Jan Beulich
2005-05-17 15:59 ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-17 17:30   ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-17 18:09     ` H. J. Lu

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