From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
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 23:21:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010807232102.A19636@lucon.org>
References: <200108080326.UAA19167@quasar.engr.sgi.com> <20010807220451.A18294@lucon.org> <20010807224622.A25295@redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00061.html

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:46:22PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> 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.
> 

That is wrong for MIPS I/II even if BFD is 64bit for whatever reason.
In any case, I won't bother with any patches. But I will fix it in my
Linux binutils.


H.J.