On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote: > That can be done automatically. For 32-bit ELF files mips*-linux binutils > dump some of the addresses as 32-bit addresses, some as sign-extended (!) > 64-bit addresses. So ksymops should just sign extend any 32-bit addresses > to 64-bit and then work on full lenght addresses. > > Is ksymoops able to handle 64-bit addresses when running on a 32-bit host? > That is a common case for many people when decoding their MIPS oopses. The point is whether addresses should be extended at all if a 32-bit target is selected. IMHO -- not, that's a limitation of BFD when configured for both a 32-bit and a 64-bit target and it should be fixed sooner or later (at least it's on my to-do list for some time). BFD is free to handle addresses as it likes internally, be it 64-bit or 32-bit, but they should be truncated on final output to a 32-bit target, as they already are for certain cases. I'm not sure we need to work it around in ksymoops until BFD is fixed -- `cut -c8- < System.map' works as a charm. It might be worth documenting, though. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
