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Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas
Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
>
> > we can't have 64bit addresses in a 32bit object file format,
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. I thought elf32 supported 64-bit addresses
> through R_MIPS_64?
MIPS ELF32 has no R_MIPS_64, AFAIK it has no notion of 64bit
entities at all.
> Besides, isn't the address size really decided by
> the ABI?
Sure, and a ABI with 64bit addresses won't fit in a object format
restricted to 32bit.
Thiemo