From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Modra To: Ulf Carlsson Cc: Andrew Cagney , BINUTILS Patches , GDB Patches Subject: Re: [rfc] For mips, sign-extended ecoff offsets Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:57:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <14670.52424.697477.308492@calypso.engr.sgi.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-06/msg00386.html On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Ulf Carlsson wrote: > On a 64-bit MIPS processor 32-bit addresses are of course sign > extended, but this shouldn't concern the 32-bit BFD backend for MIPS > in any way. Whether we sign extend the addresses or not shouldn't > make any difference except in our internal representation of the > bfd_vma. I may be wrong though! It doesn't make much difference if bfd_vma is only 32-bits (ie. BFD_64 is not set) Where you get into trouble is with targets that are generally 32-bit, but you may be using 64-bit bfd_vma types due to --enable-targets -- Linuxcare. Support for the Revolution.