Re: Kernel crash on boot with current cvs (todays)

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:44:28PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  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. 

Agreed, that'd be much more readable for humans.  For processing by
software having some canonical form, that is 64-bit would be a bit more
handy though.

  Ralf