Questions about use of type long in bfd.

[Kai Tietz]

Hi Nick,

> > In cofflink.c: _bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section line 2996: Use of 
fwrite 
> > ?
> 
> Look a little further back in the code where there is a comment 
> describing why 
> a long is being written:
> 
>    /* Relocation to a symbol in a section which isn't
>       absolute.  We output the address here to a file.
>       This file is then read by dlltool when generating the
>       reloc section.  Note that the base file is not
>       portable between systems.  We write out a long here,
>       and dlltool reads in a long.  */
> 
> 
> > In the structure 'coff_final_link_info' the members sym_indices, 
indices, 
> > and outsyms are of type 'long *'('long') ?
> 
> You may have outdated sources.  In the version of libcoff-in.h that I am 

> looking at the coff_final_link_info structure does not have an indices 
field 
> and the outsyms field is a bfd_byte*.  The sym_indices field is a 
> long* though 
> and this does look like a possible bug.  Would you care to submit a 
> patch for it ?

Thank you for anwsering. AFAI checked the sources, the 'long' type for 
sym_indices seems to be fine. May it could be altered to a new type as 
bfd_signed_size_type (according to bfd_size_type).

Sorry, for making the noice.

Cheers,
 i.A. Kai Tietz

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