From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr1-f51.google.com (mail-wr1-f51.google.com [209.85.221.51]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EBE6A3952491 for ; Fri, 6 May 2022 12:04:38 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org EBE6A3952491 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=palves.net Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=gmail.com Received: by mail-wr1-f51.google.com with SMTP id k2so9743890wrd.5 for ; Fri, 06 May 2022 05:04:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject :content-language:to:cc:references:from:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=gKi41HG/tkzxg6YxgeFHhOBdpnorEftPSfZ17apPr7c=; b=ctUWMs+EFuU6eDbWoeDYmktu31tHtp4KcE7G/5cS+sLKtlZvGqZXyn7tfJ8fybw/pr pU8q/NtIxiJiQG9Uu73uMJzqCpLGSmXbYmkRUL9GKEsh1qWM3y9AHau5lO6ZjZmm8bad n7JRPC8UBby/6YpL/onCRhoYrf9FpQeoyHpuNHS6gCUnSdiI41rq/0yX0UNQXviFgtHu TmX1+JnutBrO3riWBAKdbemgquk3U0Kuu0dxqxAdg/sgC6R9ipWWL7xFTbejaCgkxwKS rE1WnHdLQiBL0yJc3xMJkvXvk4t1e8YQTKKjUZuAlWcVpiOtRGwwU5EfDSgR8yxg3yNX CHkg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532Dgs/ClIKMIX8Ff9WBP8qnjuqpvQKekj3ds7mpztrDrjQDTNsk ALSnqagYNb0Xzcnnl1udrHs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyi7H71fJrnrlwHOKJtUv/09Ox/HLxSpQ2A2lFZ8wVqkM22HxBo4C6Uz2fZJNm9UYPLx1AHvw== X-Received: by 2002:a5d:4806:0:b0:20a:da03:711b with SMTP id l6-20020a5d4806000000b0020ada03711bmr2391928wrq.395.1651838677554; Fri, 06 May 2022 05:04:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPV6:2001:8a0:f924:2600:209d:85e2:409e:8726? ([2001:8a0:f924:2600:209d:85e2:409e:8726]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m65-20020a1c2644000000b003942a244ecesm3899410wmm.19.2022.05.06.05.04.36 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 06 May 2022 05:04:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 13:04:35 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.8.1 Subject: Re: 32-bit archs, want64=true, and gas integers Content-Language: en-US To: Jan Beulich Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson , binutils@sourceware.org, Alan Modra References: <20220504075628.81292-1-luis.machado@arm.com> <88ada15d-c371-df10-368e-f1c9fb91c289@arm.com> <20220504143703.58AD620462@pchp3.se.axis.com> <7fc3846e-6498-ee3b-efce-a28efe9ce519@palves.net> <0c7d04f6-06fe-3f8e-93ea-f33418213be4@suse.com> <36427241-7f48-6729-1dbd-c575d794ad17@suse.com> <8d88e540-d3b2-8a4c-05b0-a4020bb57816@palves.net> From: Pedro Alves In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN, FREEMAIL_FROM, GIT_PATCH_0, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: binutils@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Binutils mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 12:04:42 -0000 On 2022-05-06 12:55, Jan Beulich wrote: >> diff --git a/gas/as.h b/gas/as.h >> index 135abc8f23d..5b636cfd59a 100644 >> --- a/gas/as.h >> +++ b/gas/as.h >> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ typedef bfd_vma addressT; >> typedef bfd_signed_vma offsetT; >> >> /* Type of symbol value, etc. For use in prototypes. */ >> -typedef addressT valueT; >> +typedef uint64_t valueT; > > ... I'd be afraid this might alter behavior for purely 32-bit targets. > Whether such a behavioral change would be deemed okay I'm not sure. My thinking is that if that were a problem in practice, --enable-64-bit-bfd would already have such a problem, but I couldn't find anything in gas's configure rejecting that option for any target. I looked a bit around in bugzilla and didn't find anyone complaining about gas 32-bit vs 64-bit behavior on 32-bit archs, and didn't find anything, but admittedly I may have not searched properly.