>
> I don't know if you saw my email on one of the mailing lists related to this 
> that got into more detail, but the field being read is from an int added in 
> one of the M5 patches, so that should actually be pretty stable unless the 
> size of an int changed (does that ever happen?) or we change the patch 
> around. Basically it sticks the offset of some members of a structure into 
> ints that M5 can read out pretty easily, and maybe some other things I'm not 
> remembering off hand. I would guess the purpose of the patch in the first 
> place is to put those values somewhere we can have a bit more control over. 
> It might be a good idea to even change those to be a fixed size integer like 
> int32_t (which should be quite sufficient) that wouldn't depend on how big an 
> int ended up being. I'm not familiar with bfd, but if it is or has type data 
> for debugging purposes then that would make at least some of those ints 
> unnecessary.
>
> int won't change on Alpha ever.  int32_t is better, but it doesn't matter
too much.  That is what bfd does, but it's a big library.  Would be cool to
figure it out some day.

Go for it.

  Nate
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