maintainership of PEI code in BFD

Ian Lance Taylor ian@zembu.com
Fri Oct 27 00:52:00 GMT 2000


   Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:37:52 +1100 (EST)
   From: Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>

   On 26 Oct 2000, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

   > Do it the way ECOFF does it (I wrote most of the ECOFF backend, so I
   > like it).  There is 32 bit ECOFF for MIPS, and 64 bit ECOFF for Alpha.
   > We define the internal structures using bfd_vma.  The generic code

   I imagine this would break if the main target was 32 bit ECOFF, and you
   tried to configure with --enable-targets=<some 64 bit target>.

I don't think anything will break if you do this.  What do you think
will break?

(Note that enabling any 64 bit target forces bfd_vma to be a 64 bit
type.)

Ian


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