64bit bfd_vma vs 32bit address space in linker

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:46:14PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> What is the expected behaviour of the linker when dot advances past the
> 32 bit address space and bfd_vma is 64 bits?  Is this undefined, or
> should the result wrap around as if bfd_vma is only 32 bits?

Ideally, none of the binutils should produce different output when
bfd_vma changes size to larger than necessary.

>  Note the
> address of .text in the linker map below.

Something needs to take note of bfd_arch_info_type.bits_per_address.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre