This is the mail archive of the binutils@sources.redhat.com mailing list for the binutils project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]

Re: [PATCH] Fix bfd ABI string for MIPS


> On 16 Aug 2001 03:41:48 +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> currently bfd returns for the MIPS ABI string "N32" for every ELF
>> object with header flag EF_MIPS_ABI2 set and "64" for every ELF
>> object which is 64bit.
>> 
>> This means E_MIPS_ABI_O64 and E_MIPS_ABI_EABI64 are named wrongly
>> as "64", and an object with EF_MIPS_ABI2 and arbitrary other flags
>> set is also wrongly called "N32".
>> 
>> The patch below fixes this.
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> I think this may have side effects.  How did you test this? gcc and gdb?
> 
> -eric
> 


Yes, I wondered the same thing.  Here, I think it doesn't have an effect 
  on GDB. GDB grubs aound in the bits in the elf header when determining 
the ABI.  However, caution is definitly advised.

	Andrew



Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]