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Re: MIPS sign extension of addresses
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>
- To: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
- Cc: fnf at intrinsity dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:00:34 +0200 (MET DST)
- Subject: Re: MIPS sign extension of addresses
- Organization: Technical University of Gdansk
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Paul Koning wrote:
> That sounds right. I looked in the MIPS Inc. reference (MIPS64
> architecture, part 3, privileged architecture,
> MD00091-2B-MIPS64PRA-AFP-00.95.pdf) and it shows exactly the picture
> you describe. For example, kseg0 starts at 0xffffffff80000000 in 64
> bit addressing.
The definition of the MIPS address space much predates the MIPS64 ISA --
see the R4000 (the first 64-bit MIPS processor released) manual at the
MIPS site for a reference.
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