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Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas
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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:16:57 +0200
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> From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
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> Richard Sandiford wrote:
> > Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> >
> > > we can't have 64bit addresses in a 32bit object file format,
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean. I thought elf32 supported 64-bit addresses
> > through R_MIPS_64?
>
> MIPS ELF32 has no R_MIPS_64, AFAIK it has no notion of 64bit
> entities at all.
Doesn't this work by R_MIPS_64 being a sign-extended 32-bit address?
You don't get real 64-bit addresses, but you can create 64-bit values
from 32-bit addresses, useful for a program running on a 64-bit chip
but being loaded in the 32-bit address space.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>