Why does mips define elf_backend_sign_extend_vma to true?

[Richard Henderson]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:04:51PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> I think the better fix is to check the EF_MIPS field to only
> do sign extension for MIPS III/IV. But we don't support such encoding.

There are too many odd combinations of mips chips for
something so simplistic to work.

Besides, things aren't broken.  Use a 64-bit BFD and 
you _should_ get sign-extension for MIPS.


r~