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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Joe deBlaquiere wrote:

> If the BFD stuff is built with any support for 64 bit (even as an 
> optional target) it will maintain all addresses as 64-bit values, even 
> if the file is 32 bit.

 I do consider it fine BFD handles all addresses as 64-bit internally.  I
just think it should truncate them to 32-bits upon printing (and always
whenever appropriate) when the selected target is 32-bit.  It does so (it
has to!) for output anyway, so what's the deal? 

> 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.

 Nope, I insist 32-bit targets need to work correctly regardless of
whether there are any 64-bit ones supported by a particular BFD binary or
not.  Do you think elf32-i386 should switch to printing 64-bit addresses
if elf64-alpha is also supported by a given configuration of BFD?  I
don't.

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