32-bit archs, want64=true, and gas integers

Pedro Alves pedro@palves.net
Fri May 6 14:44:47 GMT 2022


On 2022-05-06 15:32, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
>> Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 12:43:27 +0200
> 
>> If something like this went in, then I assume that cris could go back to not setting
>> want64=yes.
>> [gas expr patch]
> 
> While something like that could work (thanks for your work),
> I still prefer having all binutils behavior consistent
> regardless of host 32/64-bitness.  

Can't argue with that.  As I mentioned, GDB switched to always using 64-bit CORE_ADDR
a few years ago.  I've never heard anyone complain about that causing slowdown or higher
memory usage.  Plus, who develops on 32-bit hosts nowadays, anyhow?

> There's at least objdump output too.

Curious, what sort of objdump output difference does 32-bit/64-bit bfd cause?


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