64bit bfd_vma vs 32bit address space in linker

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr  8, 2003, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> So why isn't bits_per_address == 32 if the ABI says addresses are
> 32-bit?

Because bits_per_address is a property of the architecture.  The same
architecture can run programs that follow several different ABIs, some
of them with 32-bit addresses, some with 64-bit addresses.

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