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Re: check mips abi x linker emulation compatibility
On May 14, 2003, Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 17:22, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On May 8, 2003, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On May 7, 2003, Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> How about this then? Alex, can you please duplicate and xfail for
>> >> mips*-linux the tests that you added abi support for?
>>
>> > How about this instead: add -mabi=neutral or -mabi=from-arch or
>> > something like that, and use this flag on mips targets that have a
>> > non-neutral default?
>>
>> Should I take the absence of a response on this one as a `no'?
> I'd prefer not. I don't really like the no-abi thing anyhow. That's IMO
> a broken holdover from irix o32 not having a flag.
Note that my proposal is orthogonal to the no-abi thing. I'm talking
about having a flag that will let the assembler figure the ABI out all
by itself, instead of following whatever default the target triplet
introduced.
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