2002-06-08 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>

	* elf.c (copy_private_bfd_data): Don't cast to bfd_size_type to
	work around a long long bug in gcc 2.96 on mips.

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index e9fd3f2..d7b6138 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-06-08  H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
+
+       * elf.c (copy_private_bfd_data): Don't cast to bfd_size_type to
+       work around a long long bug in gcc 2.96 on mips.
+
 2002-06-08  Jason Thorpe  <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
 
        * Makefile.am (BFD32_BACKENDS): Add vax1knetbsd.lo.

diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index dd1b067..61b9f50 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -4688,7 +4688,9 @@ copy_private_bfd_data (ibfd, obfd)
         pointers that we are interested in.  As these sections get assigned
         to a segment, they are removed from this array.  */
 
-      amt = (bfd_size_type) section_count * sizeof (asection *);
+      /* Gcc 2.96 miscompiles this code on mips. Don't do casting here
+        to work around this long long bug.  */
+      amt = section_count * sizeof (asection *);
       sections = (asection **) bfd_malloc (amt);
       if (sections == NULL)
        return false;