On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > I see that our start address of 0x80102584 has been turned into > > 0xffffffff80102584. I'm thinking that > > I need to tell ld something to stop it from doing this. Any ideas? > > That's be ok. 32-bit MIPS addresses are sign-extended into 64-bit addresses. > Older binutils used to zero-extend addresses which was broken. So what > you observe is actually the sympthom of a bug that got fixed. I'm not sure that's the best solution, I'm afraid. For elf32-mips addresses should be 32-bit and not 64-bit. It would be consistent with other 32-bit platforms, it would make interoperability easier (ksymoops cannot make use of System.map to grok kernel oopses which provide 32-bit addresses) and it would make objdump outputs more readable. Fixing this problem with BFD is on my to do list (but has a low priority assigned). -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
