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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:37:00 -0000
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com>
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Subject: Re: mips-tdep.c: Sign-extend pointers for n32
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:07:42PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  Hmm, these are obviously C-style types and I would expect other languages 
> to have their own specific ones (Ada, anyone?).  As they map somehow to 
> the integer types provided by the underlying architecture, wouldn't it be 
> a good idea to actually record which of the plain CPU-specific types each 
> of the language types corresponds to?

Yes, that sounds like a good solution.  I don't think we need to fix
it today, though :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery