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Re: [Patch] MIPS Linux symbol sorting (resubmittal)
- To: "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill at cotw dot com>
- Subject: Re: [Patch] MIPS Linux symbol sorting (resubmittal)
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 18:57:33 -0700
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, ulfc at calypso dot engr dot sgi dot com
- References: <200104052145.QAA29539@cvsftp.cotw.com>
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:45:10PM -0500, Steven J. Hill wrote:
>
> This is a resubmit of the MIPS symbol sorting patch cleaned up with
> a Changelog entry per instructions. Thanks.
>
Please just include your ChangeLog next time. No need for diff on
ChangeLog.
> -Steve
>
> diff -urN binutils-04042001/ChangeLog binutils-04042001-patched/ChangeLog
> --- binutils-04042001/ChangeLog Mon Apr 2 01:16:58 2001
> +++ binutils-04042001-patched/ChangeLog Thu Apr 5 16:42:06 2001
> @@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
> +2001-04-05 Steven J. Hill <sjhill@cotw.com>
> +
> + * bfd/config.bfd: different BFD target vectors for MIPS/Linux
> + * bfd/configure: regenerated
> + * bfd/elf32-mips.c: fixed symbol sorting for MIPS/Linux targets
> + * bfd/elf64-mips.c: changed target for 64-bit MIPS/Linux targets
> + * bfd/targets.c: added new 64-bit MIPS/Linux targets
> + * gas/Makefile.in: regenerated
> + * gas/config/tc-mips.c: traditional MIPS targets used for MIPS/Linux
> + * gas/configure.in: regenerated
> + * ld/Makefile.in: regenerated
> + * ld/configure.tgt: MIPS/Linux target uses traditional MIPS
> + * ld/emulparams/elf32ltsmip.sh: new target emulation script
> + * ld/emulparams/elf64btsmip.sh: new target emulation script
> + * ld/emulparams/elf64ltsmip.sh: new target emulation script
> +
I'd like this patch. I never understood why Linux/MIPS was configured
with the MIPS/ELF target for IRIX. As far as I know, Linux/MIPS is just
another ELF arch. The glibc only supports the MIPS SVR4 ABI, not the
IRIX ABI. Can we check it in?
Thanks.
H.J.