Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix symbol lookup for mips64* targets

["Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On 10/2/08, Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> wrote:
> For 64 bit targets, lookup_symbol() compares a 64-bit target address
>  with a 32 bit symbol address. This only works for addresses less than 2^32.
>
>  MIPS64 kernels use addresses larger than 0xffffffff80000000,
>  so qemu.log never shows symbolic names.
>
>  My patch is a workaround which works with Qemu's 32 bit address hack.
>  Please apply it to Qemu trunk.

This applies to all architectures, not just MIPS64, so it need not be
conditional to TARGET_MIPS64.

>  Maybe a better solution would use symbol addresses without shortening
>  them to 32 bits.

Yes. That would mean using elf_sym instead of Elf32_sym in places
where symbols are  used and removing the SZ==64 hacks in elf_ops.h.