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Re: [rfc] For mips, sign-extended ecoff offsets
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 17:27:02 +1000
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> This is all due to a long-ago decision to ship support for a 64-bit
> MIPS chip using a 32-bit MIPS target. I think that sign extending
> pdr.ADR is probably right, since that is how 32 bit addresses are
> treated by the relocation routines.
Yes.
> But the real fix is to use a
> 64-bit MIPS target.
Kind of :-) GDB can now be built to support (embedded only mind) the
debugging of a fairly arbitrary MIPS ABI on 64 bit MIPS targets. For
instance, a single GDB executable can debug both ``gcc -mips2'' and
``gcc ...'' executables running on a 64 bit vr5000. It might even
eventually support that behavour under IRIX :-)
Implementing this cleanly relies 32 bit MIPS addresses always being
correctly sign extended. At present they are not and things are
suffering for it :-)
I don't understand that. When gdb is debugging a 32 bit target, such
as gcc -mips2, it should handle all target addresses as 32 bit values.
Anything else would be a host/target confusion. Sign extension or
lack thereof should be irrelevant.
The only issue here is that, for historical reasons, some 64 bit
targets use a 32 bit object file format. If each 64 bit target used a
64 bit object file format, all would be well.
Ian