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Re: [PATCH, POINTER] Let gas support mips64
- To: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH, POINTER] Let gas support mips64
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>
- Date: 20 Jun 2001 22:34:27 -0700
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20010620200542.D22876@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> >Also, note that
> >gas normally use valueT and addressT rather than bfd_vma. (I actually
> >don't see any semantic change here at all, although I am probably
> >missing something.)
>
> The whole existing mips64 support in binutils requires bfd_vma.
It's a style issue, not a semantic issue. valueT and addressT are
simply typedefs for bfd_vma--see as.h.
Although I just did a grep, and I see that a lot of uses of bfd_vma
have crept into gas, even a couple in tc-mips.c.
Ian