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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:40:41AM -0600, Joe deBlaquiere wrote:

> There is a bug in that "some" newer versions of objcopy will not allow 
> you to translate these sign-extended 32 bit addresses into Intel Hex 
> format.

I couldn't care less ...

> If you're really only doing 32-bit mips you might consider removing the 
> 64 bit targets in the config.bfd... I think that will solve the problems.

Doesn't really solve the problem.  For example on an Origin we have a 32-bit
userland but 64-bit kernel addresses which confuses ksymops and procps.

  Ralf