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Re: [PATCH] Fix wrong common symbol size in LTO symtabs.

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>
Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:47:38 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix wrong common symbol size in LTO symtabs.
References: <4CD9BFE1.20703@gmail.com> <4CD9BD91.1090404@redhat.com> <4CD9C5BE.7020506@gmail.com>

On 11/09/2010 02:05 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>   So what should I do if HWI is only 32 bits?  I don't know, but it looks like
> that code must have been put there to try and avoid that possible limitation
> in the first place, so it must be anticipating >32bit sizes in some cases.

*shrug* I dunno, fail?  Either that or uglify the code with
a bunch of conditionalizations.

Frankly I'm not sure why we ever try to compile for a 64-bit
target with a 32-bit HWI.  Drop that bit of silliness and we
greatly simplify lots of the compiler.

r~

Follow-Ups:
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  - From: Dave Korn
- Re: [PATCH] Fix wrong common symbol size in LTO symtabs.
  - From: Richard Guenther

References:
- [PATCH] Fix wrong common symbol size in LTO symtabs.
  - From: Dave Korn
- Re: [PATCH] Fix wrong common symbol size in LTO symtabs.
  - From: Richard Henderson
- Re: [PATCH] Fix wrong common symbol size in LTO symtabs.
  - From: Dave Korn

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