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Re: a bunch of MIPS GAS testsuite failures.


MIPS ABI ELF is better documented and thus a better choise. IRIX is
proprietary so i'm not sure all secrets inside will be revealed...

Right now _my_ major problem is binutils 2.10 and static linking...



On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 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
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