RFA: print addresses that are longer than pointers, take two
Jim Blandy
jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com
Mon May 1 14:08:00 GMT 2000
> Now consider a mips32 program (in elf32) running on a mips64 target
> (another would be sparc32/sparc64). ADDRESS_TO_POINTER et.al. would
> handle the translation required by ``void* <=> CORE_ADDR''. However,
> what about the address information contained in the symtab and debug
> sections. Wouldn't that also need to be converted to a cannonical form?
Those addresses should be in canonical form already, as provided by
BFD. As I said in the paragraph after the one you quoted:
> Symbol addresses are always byte addresses, so CORE_ADDRs and symbol
> addresses are the same thing.
So, Dwarf 2 info should hold byte addresses, BFD should provide byte
addresses, and so on.
Can you find a specific instance where the wrong thing happens?
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