Why does mips define elf_backend_sign_extend_vma to true?

[H . J . Lu]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:01:59AM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:02:28AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > The gdb I checked out from the 5.1 branch yesterday doesn't do it. BTW,
> > what
> > 
> > (gdb) print printk
> 
> Not sign extended.
> 
> > # gdb yourgdb
> > .....
> > (top-gdb) print sizeof (CORE_ADDR)
> 
> 8 (64-bit).
> 

Something must be wrong somewhere. I checked out gdb 5.1 from CVS
yesterday and did

/home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb-5.1/gdb/configure \
	--target=mipsel-linux \
	--prefix=/export/tools \
	--with-local-prefix=/export/tools

It doesn't work for me.


H.J.