From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010831204556.C17249@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yov51yls6sgi.fsf@highland.sibyte.com>
cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
[snip]
> > > > > > 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?
> >
> > Reiteration: MIPS ELF32 has no R_MIPS_64.
>
> Maybe i'm missing something in what you're saying but...
I'm talking about:
SYSTEM V APPLICATION BINARY INTERFACE
MIPS RISC Processor Supplement
3rd Edition
where no such relocation is defined.
> bfd's elf32-mips.c definitely has some amount of support for
> R_MIPS_64...
It is a relocation from ABI 64, ABI N32 is a variation of it WRT.
Even n32 code does not use R_MIPS_64 or R_MIPS_SUB because it can't
hold a 64bit value in it's relocations (and it has no use for 64bit
anyway).
> As far as I know, we (SiByte) have been using it for ... a while now
> in code that gets compiled with -mips[34] (or similar 8-) -mlong64,
> into elf32 object files...
I saw the comments in elf32-mips.c and hoped nobody actually used
it anyway. It violates every applicable standard.
Can you give a example where R_MIPS_64 is actually needed instead
of R_MIPS_32? If the output is truncated I can't see why R_MIPS_32
(possibly with tweaked content) insn't enough.
Thiemo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-31 11:46 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
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 [this message]
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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