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Re: building a n32 toolchain?
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 12:35:48AM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:54:06PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:51:03PM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been trying to build a binutils 2.15 capable of ABI=n32 for a while
> > > now. Does anyone know a tuple that will provide this? I tried
> > > mips64-linux-elf which seems to set the proper flags in the gas
> > > configure script, but bfd doesn't play well with that (gas ends up not
> > > being able to generate an output file since the n32 is default and bfd
> > > still isn't built supporting it).
> > >
> > > This isn't for linux, it's for an embedded mips3 application where n32
> > > makes the most sense.
> >
> > The mips64-linux toolchain supports n32. So do the mips64-irix6
> > toolchains. None of the mips64-elf toolchains do.
> >
> > "mips64-linux-elf" is mips64-elf with hardware produced by "linux" :-)
>
> Thanks. I think that was the problem. Not that I need it right now,
> but is there a todo list for getting n32 going on ELF targets?
Not that I know of. You'd need a newlib port. I'm not sure if that
would be enough...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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