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Re: PATCH: w64 native support
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:51:21PM +0200, Kai Tietz wrote:
> "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote on 10.04.2007 19:18:28:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:00:14PM +0200, Kai Tietz wrote:
> > > "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote on 10.04.2007 18:12:45:
> > >
> > > > Have you looked at
> > > >
> > > > http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2737
> > > >
> > > > Does windres work for x64?
> > >
> > >
> > > I replaced in all structures of windres.h the type "unsigned long" by
> > > "unsigned int" for test and patched the dependent files to use not
> long
> > > type-specifier in printf methods. It works that way, but I am not
> certain,
> > > if this would break an other target, where "int" isn't 4 bytes long ?
> > ^^^^^
> > It should be host, not target.
> >
> > It is better than what we have today. You can add
> >
> > assert (sizeof (int) == 4);
> >
> > somewhere.
>
> Ok, I on that.
>
> But I noticed, while bootstrap my patch on it on cygwin, that the
> replacement of long to bfd_vma does not work as explected for 32-bit hosts
> and using --enable-64-bit-bfd. Gcc claims, that pointer size and integer
> size are not fitting.
> I think, we have to introduce a type bfd_hostptr_t or something like that
> to solve this problem ?
>
I don't think it is needed. --enable-64-bit-bfd works fine for
Linux/x86. If --enable-64-bit-bfd doesn't work for cygwin, it
should be fixed.
H.J.