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RE: Does ix86 PE support 64bit bfd?
- From: Danny Smith <dannysmith at clear dot net dot nz>
- To: "'H. J. Lu'" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:08:36 +1300
- Subject: RE: Does ix86 PE support 64bit bfd?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. J. Lu
> Sent: Monday, 5 February 2007 4:34 p.m.
>
> Hi,
>
> I am working on ia32 linker bug:
>
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3966
>
> where IA32 32bit address wrap around doesn't work with 32bit host.
> My proposed solution is to use 64bit bfd for ia32 targets. But
> I am not sure if ix86 PE works with 64bit bfd:
>
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3961
>
> Can you check it out? You can configure binutils with
> --enable-64-bit-bfd to use 64bit bfd.
There are no new testsuite failures on i686-pc-mingw32 after configuring
with ---enable-64-bit-bfd (and yes bfd.h says #define BFD_ARCH_SIZE 64)
Danny
> Thanks.
H.J.