From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30528 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2002 07:42:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30132 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2002 07:41:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mms1.broadcom.com) (63.70.210.58) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jul 2002 07:41:43 -0000 Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms1.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom MMS-1 SMTP Relay (MMS v4.7)); Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:41:15 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: 1e1caf3a-b686-11d4-a6a3-00508bfc9ae5 Received: from mail-sj1-5.sj.broadcom.com (mail-sj1-5.sj.broadcom.com [10.16.128.236]) by mon-irva-11.broadcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA26671; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dt-sj3-118.sj.broadcom.com (dt-sj3-118 [10.21.64.118]) by mail-sj1-5.sj.broadcom.com (8.12.4/8.12.4/SSF) with ESMTP id g6D7ffER009237; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cgd@localhost) by dt-sj3-118.sj.broadcom.com ( 8.9.1/SJ8.9.1) id AAA14551; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:41:40 -0700 (PDT) To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" cc: "Eric Christopher" , "Richard Sandiford" , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFC & patch: Rework MIPS command-line handling References: <1026499078.25426.27.camel@ghostwheel.cygnus.com> From: cgd@broadcom.com Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:52:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl's message of "Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:43:56 +0000 (UTC)" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-WSS-ID: 1131061169266-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00279.txt.bz2 At Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:43:56 +0000 (UTC), "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > With 32-bit addresses, I assume, as relocations used for o32 don't fit > 64-bit addressing well, right? If so, that's the same as o32 from the > binutils' point of view -- only gcc would generate different code. 32-bit or 64-bit addresses (-mlong64 or not). obviously you only get 32-bit addresses (sign extended to 64) in your object files, but e.g. you might strongly want 64-bit addresse constants for e.g. accessing devices in xkphys. cgd