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Re: arm_addr_bits_remove


Thanks Pedro.

>   /* The low two bits of the PC on the PA contain the privilege level.
>      Some genius implementing a (non-GCC) compiler apparently decided
>      this means that "addresses" in a text section therefore include a
>      privilege level, and thus symbol tables should contain these bits.
>      This seems like a bonehead thing to do--anyway, it seems to work
>      for our purposes to just ignore those bits.  */

I just love the comment :). I'm so happy I'm not the HP genius
in question :-). Seriously, I think we should be careful not to
add more sarcastic comments like this in the future, it's not
very serious nor very useful. That being said, I love sarcasm,
so I had a good laugh.

> I guess that compiler would be HP's.  If the symbols had the bits set,
> so could the line info.

Right. That's why I mentioned the fact that part of my toolchain
was from GNU tools.

> Do we still support HP's object format and debug info ?

Not sure.

-- 
Joel


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