Re: Problems compiling elfxx-sparc.c

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>]

Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:

> Unfortunately that is not enough.  All "want64=true" does is to add
> "targ64_selvecs" to the list of targets that should be configured.  If
> targ64_selvecs is empty then nothing new happens.

No, it also sets wordsize=64, which causes bfd_vma to be 64 bits.

I do see now that there is a special case for mips at the very end of
config.bfd:

case "${targ_defvec} ${targ_selvecs}" in
  *bfd_elf64* | *bfd_elf32_n*mips*)

Perhaps we need to add a special case for sparc there as well.

Ian