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From: Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
To: ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200108311711.KAA19709@geoffk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010831181657.A17249@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>

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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:16:57 +0200
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> From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
> 
> Richard Sandiford wrote:
> > Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> > 
> > > we can't have 64bit addresses in a 32bit object file format,
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean.  I thought elf32 supported 64-bit addresses
> > through R_MIPS_64?
> 
> MIPS ELF32 has no R_MIPS_64, AFAIK it has no notion of 64bit
> entities at all.

Doesn't this work by R_MIPS_64 being a sign-extended 32-bit address?

You don't get real 64-bit addresses, but you can create 64-bit values
from 32-bit addresses, useful for a program running on a 64-bit chip
but being loaded in the 32-bit address space.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-31  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-24 18:26 Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-31  8:02 ` Richard Sandiford
2001-08-31  8:28   ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-31  9:17   ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-31  9:53     ` Geoff Keating [this message]
2001-08-31 10:31       ` Thiemo Seufer
     [not found]         ` <mailpost.999279120.2469@postal.sibyte.com>
2001-08-31 10:37           ` cgd
2001-08-31 11:46             ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-31 11:49               ` Ian Lance Taylor
2001-08-31 11:50               ` Ian Lance Taylor
     [not found]               ` <mailpost.999283589.5294@postal.sibyte.com>
2001-08-31 12:41                 ` cgd
2001-08-31 14:31                   ` H . J . Lu
2001-09-03 23:07                     ` cgd
2001-09-06 10:50                       ` H . J . Lu
2001-09-06 10:59                         ` cgd
2001-09-06 11:07                           ` H . J . Lu
2001-09-06 11:35                             ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-06 11:39                             ` cgd
2001-09-06 11:40                               ` cgd
2001-09-08 12:03                               ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-08 16:38                                 ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-08 16:56                                   ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-06 11:57                             ` Richard Sandiford
2001-09-06 20:53                               ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-06 21:09                                 ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-06 21:12                                 ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-06 22:38                                   ` H . J . Lu
2001-09-06 23:11                                     ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-07  4:10                                 ` Richard Sandiford
2001-09-07  6:22                                   ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-07  7:02                                     ` Richard Sandiford
2001-09-07  8:11                                       ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-07  9:20                                         ` Richard Sandiford
2001-09-07  9:49                                           ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-06 11:14                           ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-06 11:08                         ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-31 18:22                   ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-03  2:57                     ` Richard Sandiford
2001-09-03 15:00                       ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-31 14:49               ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-31 15:00                 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-31 16:30                   ` Eric Christopher
2001-08-31 16:41                     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-31 16:46                       ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-31 17:45                         ` matthew green
2001-09-02 19:25                         ` J Grant
2001-08-31 16:44                     ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-31 17:42                       ` matthew green
2001-08-31 19:06                         ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-31 19:11                           ` matthew green
     [not found]                             ` <mailpost.999310274.17560@postal.sibyte.com>
2001-09-03 23:18                               ` cgd
2001-09-06 11:00                                 ` H . J . Lu
2001-09-06 11:38                                   ` cgd
2001-09-06 12:09                                     ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-31 18:49                     ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-31 17:35                   ` matthew green
2001-08-31 19:05                     ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-31 18:25                 ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-31 20:46                   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2001-08-31 21:04                     ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-31 10:04     ` Richard Sandiford
2001-08-31 10:41       ` Thiemo Seufer

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