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Re: a bunch of MIPS GAS testsuite failures.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:22:33PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> Historically, the mips gas had been generating incorrect binaries under
> certain conditions until very recently. As the result, libstdc++ was
> miscompiled. I don't know what kinds of the impact of the ABI change
> will be on none-SGI targets. But for Linux, everything has been very
> positive so far. There are no negative impacts I know of. As far as I
> can tell, the binutils on Linux/mips had been broken for a long time.
> All those fixes, incliuding the ABI change, make a big difference for
> us. I am not saying none-SGI targets shouldn't use the SGI ABI. I only
> speak for my Linuxx/mips experiences.
MIPS ABI ELF is documented but it's differences to IRIX ELF are not very
well documented and were afaik implemented in binutils based on reverse
engineering. Therefore I think changing from IRIX ELF to ABI ELF is a
good idea for every MIPS ELF target.
Per, any comment for the OpenBSD side?
Ralf