recent binutils and mips64-linux

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Thiemo Seufer wrote:

> > > A third answer is to add a -msign-extend-addresses switch in the assembler.
> > > Together with -mabi=64 this would produce optimized ELF64 output.
> > 
> >  Hmm, what do you exactly mean -- is that what I am worrying about?
> 
> The idea is to use the assembler's 32bit macro expansions for addresses.

 So it is...

> This reduces the .text size of a n64 kernel and improves the performance,
> without tricks like -Wa,32.

 What if the final link leads to segments being mapped outside the 32-bit
address range?  We won't know about it when assembling.

 If the idea were to be implemented, there should be a flag added to the
header of object files that would forbid the linker to map addresses
outside the 32-bit range.

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