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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Scott A McConnell <samcconn@cotw.com>
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:42:02AM -0700, Scott A McConnell wrote:

> What am I doing that is causing the  leading ffffffff in the addresses?

Everything right :-)

32-bit addresses on MIPS get sign extended into 64-bit addresses.  Binutils
had related bugs; I assume you switched binutils versions between the
two builds?

  Ralf