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Re: check mips abi x linker emulation compatibility
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>, Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 12:37:18 +0200 (MET DST)
- Subject: Re: check mips abi x linker emulation compatibility
- Organization: Technical University of Gdansk
On 20 May 2003, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> mips64-linux-gnu-abi64 and mips64-linux-gnu-abin32 are recognized by
> glibc, a change I made after my initial mips64{n32,n64,o32} attempt
> because it was rejected by the maintainer of config.{guess,sub}, and I
> actually disliked it myself. If you want to set the ABI, use the
> existing convention of specifying it after linux-gnu, as done in
> -altivec and other multi-abi systems.
I wasn't aware the usual triplet has managed to grow to a quintuplet,
yet. ;-) Anyway, that makes a lot of sense. I'll hit this direction with
my development, then.
> /me thinks n32 should definitely be the default for mips64-linux-gnu,
> in the absence of an explicit abi specification.
Well, while I think (n)64 would be the right choice from a puristic point
of view, I do recognize practical reasons and I consider the current
default acceptable (although the naming may be somewhat confusing). If
practical conditions change as time passes by, we may reconsider the
default choice, after all.
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