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Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas
- To: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas
- From: Richard Sandiford <r dot sandiford at redhat dot com>
- Date: 31 Aug 2001 16:02:30 +0100
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20010825032615.E309@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> we can't have 64bit addresses in a 32bit object file format,
I'm not sure what you mean. I thought elf32 supported 64-bit addresses
through R_MIPS_64? Besides, isn't the address size really decided by
the ABI?
> so I added a check for mips_64 to the relevant macro. This will fail
> for o64 ABI and possibly for eabi64 too, but these are both virtually
> unimplemented in gas. (I don't really know how eabi64 is defined.)
Richard