Does ix86 PE support 64bit bfd?

Danny Smith dannysmith@clear.net.nz
Mon Feb 5 08:50:00 GMT 2007



> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. J. Lu 
> Sent: Monday, 5 February 2007 4:34 p.m.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on ia32 linker bug:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3966
> 
> where IA32 32bit address wrap around doesn't work with 32bit host.
> My proposed solution is to use 64bit bfd for ia32 targets. But
> I am not sure if ix86 PE works with 64bit bfd:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3961
> 
> Can you check it out? You can configure binutils with
> --enable-64-bit-bfd to use 64bit bfd.

There are no new testsuite failures on i686-pc-mingw32 after configuring
with ---enable-64-bit-bfd (and yes bfd.h says #define BFD_ARCH_SIZE 64)

Danny

> Thanks.


H.J.



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