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Re: 64bit bfd_vma vs 32bit address space in linker

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 03:55:27AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Apr  8, 2003, Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au> wrote:
> 
> > So why isn't bits_per_address == 32 if the ABI says addresses are
> > 32-bit?
> 
> Because bits_per_address is a property of the architecture.  The same
> architecture can run programs that follow several different ABIs, some
> of them with 32-bit addresses, some with 64-bit addresses.

Hmm, let's rename bfd_arch_info_type to bfd_arch_abi_info_type.  ;-)

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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