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Re: x86-64 support for gas part I
- To: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: x86-64 support for gas part I
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 18 Dec 2000 01:53:43 -0200
- Cc: Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, patches at x86-64 dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012181411200.6247-100000@front.linuxcare.com.au>
On Dec 18, 2000, Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au> wrote:
> sixtyfour_bit_int x = 0x80000000;
> gives x == 0xffffffff80000000 on an old compiler, x == 0x0000000080000000
> on an ISO C compiler.
Do we care? A couple of months ago, I submitted a patch to fix one
such problem in some sparc-related file that was preventing bootstraps
with an old SPARCompiler, but it was either rejected or simply ignored
(I don't remember for sure). Should I re-post it?
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