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Re: RFA: Do solib address arithmetic with appropriate truncation
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:28:59PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
>
> Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> > Assuming a 32 bit MIPS section header and offset:
> >
> > 0x70000000
> > 0x20000000
> > ----------
> > 0x90000000 -> 0xffffffff90000000
>
> Okay, thanks.
>
> Now, on such a system --- 32 bit MIPS section headers and 32-bit
> pointers --- where will a value like 0xffffffff90000000 ever actually
> appear *on the target*? That is, why isn't this sign extension just a
> figment of GDB's imagination?
Just to provide an alternate wording of Andrew's answer - one of the
quirks of MIPS is that it can use a 32-bit data space, and a 32-bit ELF
format, and yet have 64-bit GPRs. Another is that those 64-bit GPRs
may be usable in 64-bit mode from user programs, and may not be - and
might be readable by the stub in 64-bit mode or not.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
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