From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: David B Anderson <davea@quasar.engr.sgi.com>,
gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Why does mips define elf_backend_sign_extend_vma to true?
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 22:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010807224622.A25295@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010807220451.A18294@lucon.org>
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:04:51PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> I think the better fix is to check the EF_MIPS field to only
> do sign extension for MIPS III/IV. But we don't support such encoding.
There are too many odd combinations of mips chips for
something so simplistic to work.
Besides, things aren't broken. Use a 64-bit BFD and
you _should_ get sign-extension for MIPS.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-07 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-07 20:27 David B Anderson
2001-08-07 22:04 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-07 22:46 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2001-08-07 23:21 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-08 0:50 ` Richard Henderson
2001-08-08 1:09 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-08-08 7:29 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-08 7:50 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-08 8:03 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-08 8:18 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-08 9:02 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-08 9:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-08-08 10:02 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-08 11:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-08-08 11:08 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-09 12:23 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-08 9:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-08-08 9:52 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-10 0:47 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
[not found] <20010807182459.A15252@lucon.org>
[not found] ` <20010807183933.A15425@lucon.org>
[not found] ` <3B709900.3000502@cygnus.com>
[not found] ` <20010807184504.A15571@lucon.org>
2001-08-07 18:52 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-07 18:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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