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Re: 0xffffffff when BFD64
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 01:32:13AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2000, Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au> wrote:
>
> > I guess we should check all hex constants in the range 0x80000000 to
> > 0xffffffff, replacing them with const & N_ONES(32). Blechh.
>
> I started doing something like that, but gave up. It's just too much
> of a hassle. I'd rather just fix the problem at hand, which occurs
> with a native compiler, and hope no other compiler has this problem.
> After all, we can always recommend GCC :-)
But egcs and onwards, gcc 2.7.x miscompiles binutils if bfd_vma is long long
on SPARC as well.
Jakub