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From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
	binutils@sources.redhat.com, Stefan Reinauer <stepan@suse.de>
Subject: Re: 64bit bfd_vma vs 32bit address space in linker
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 05:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030408051753.GW1189@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <or1y0diu2w.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:47:19PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Apr  7, 2003, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Something needs to take note of bfd_arch_info_type.bits_per_address.
> 
> bits_per_address is not necessarily the right choice.

Without looking in detail at the code, I believe that bits_per_address
is exactly the right thing to use to implement the (currently missing
when BFD64) linker address wrap.  See uses of bits_per_address in
bfd/relocs.c.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-08  5:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-04 15:46 Andreas Schwab
2003-04-08  0:58 ` Alan Modra
2003-04-08  2:47   ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-08  5:17     ` Alan Modra [this message]
2003-04-08  6:25       ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-08  6:45         ` Alan Modra
2003-04-08  6:55           ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-08  9:49             ` Alan Modra
2003-04-08 10:13               ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-08  7:28           ` Andreas Jaeger
2003-04-08  8:53             ` Alan Modra
2003-04-08  6:53         ` Thiemo Seufer

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