Does ix86 PE support 64bit bfd?

[H. J. Lu]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:08:36PM +1300, Danny Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----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)

Did you try cross-build with binutils source only on other hosts?


H.J.