Re: PATCH: w64 native support

["H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:51:21PM +0200, Kai Tietz wrote:
> "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote on 10.04.2007 19:18:28:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:00:14PM +0200, Kai Tietz wrote:
> > > "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote on 10.04.2007 18:12:45:
> > > 
> > > > Have you looked at
> > > > 
> > > > http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2737
> > > > 
> > > > Does windres work for x64?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I replaced in all structures of windres.h the type "unsigned long" by 
> > > "unsigned int" for test and patched the dependent files to use not 
> long 
> > > type-specifier in printf methods. It works that way, but I am not 
> certain, 
> > > if this would break an other target, where "int" isn't 4 bytes long ? 
> >                 ^^^^^
> >                 It should be host, not target.
> > 
> > It is better than what we have today. You can add
> > 
> >    assert (sizeof (int) == 4);
> > 
> > somewhere.
> 
> Ok, I on that.
> 
> But I noticed, while bootstrap my patch on it on cygwin, that the 
> replacement of long to bfd_vma does not work as explected for 32-bit hosts 
> and using --enable-64-bit-bfd. Gcc claims, that pointer size and integer 
> size are not fitting.
> I think, we have to introduce a type bfd_hostptr_t or something like that 
> to solve this problem ?
> 

I don't think it is needed. --enable-64-bit-bfd works fine for
Linux/x86. If --enable-64-bit-bfd doesn't work for cygwin, it
should be fixed.


H.J.