2009/1/10 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>:
>> I think it is a sub-optimal solution to have just support for Vista64, but
>> not for XP.
>
> To me, the question is not about whether to support XP64 or not.
> I agree it would be nice to support XP64 as well.  It's about who
> has the time and energy to drive the discussion to find an accepted
> solution.  I decided to drop XP64, because it's not in the list of
> things I'm interested in while I'm sensing that it's going to take
> a bit of effort to reach a consensus. You already made a very nice
> contribution in the coff/pe reader, why not send another patch to
> further improve host_address_to_string for XP64?
>
>> On a second thought, I remembered, that bfd does things right ;) There
>> is the macro sprintf_vma in bfd.h, which handles things pretty well
>> and can be used here in utils.c, too.
>
> The problem with that routine is that it is designed to print target
> addresses, not host addresses.
>
> --
> Joel
>

ok, so I sugget the following patch instead. It is able to generate
addresses for XP64 without the use of any vendor specific printf
formatters, and uses for targets where sizeof(long) == sizeof(void*)
the long variant.

Cheers,
Kai


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