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Re: mips-elf regressions

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Alan Modra wrote:

> > As SGI_COMPAT is true, this looks to be expected.
> >
> > Can someone confirm this ?
> 
> Yes.  Although I don't really see a need to break the ELF standard
> when there are no global section symbols.

 SGI_COMPAT is *the* ELF standard for MIPS per the psABI supplement.  
Unfortunately it's incompatible with the requirements of the GNU C 
library, which is why the "traditional" variation has been created around 
the time glibc 2.2 was released.  The incompatibility was the main reason 
there has never been glibc 2.1 for MIPS/Linux.

  Maciej
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