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-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--bfd/elf.c4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index e9fd3f2..d7b6138 100644
--- 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
--- 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;