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Re: 64bit bfd_vma vs 32bit address space in linker
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:47:19PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2003, Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au> wrote:
>
> > Something needs to take note of bfd_arch_info_type.bits_per_address.
>
> bits_per_address is not necessarily the right choice.
Without looking in detail at the code, I believe that bits_per_address
is exactly the right thing to use to implement the (currently missing
when BFD64) linker address wrap. See uses of bits_per_address in
bfd/relocs.c.
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Alan Modra
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