[PATCH, POINTER] Let gas support mips64
Thiemo Seufer
ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
Wed Jun 20 11:06:00 GMT 2001
Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
>
>> (load_register): Change register width check to use USES_32BIT_REGS.
>> Fix handling of sign bit in 64bit constants.
>
>A small thing: you're changing a pair of shifts by 16 to a single
>shift by 32. That will lead to warnings when compiled on a 32 bit
>processor. That's why the shifts by 16 are there.
I do so and get no warning. :-) I assume You meant a compiler
without an integral 64bit type.
To circumvent such warnings, I switched back to 2 16bit shifts
and changed the patch accordingly.
>Also, note that
>gas normally use valueT and addressT rather than bfd_vma. (I actually
>don't see any semantic change here at all, although I am probably
>missing something.)
The whole existing mips64 support in binutils requires bfd_vma.
Thiemo
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