From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
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 06:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <orof3hh40w.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030408064554.GX1189@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>
On Apr 8, 2003, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> So why isn't bits_per_address == 32 if the ABI says addresses are
> 32-bit?
Because bits_per_address is a property of the architecture. The same
architecture can run programs that follow several different ABIs, some
of them with 32-bit addresses, some with 64-bit addresses.
--
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Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-08 6:55 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
2003-04-08 6:25 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-08 6:45 ` Alan Modra
2003-04-08 6:55 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
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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