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Re: MIPS gas is broken now.
On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 10:40, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> At Mon, 2 Sep 2002 16:20:42 +0000 (UTC), "Thiemo Seufer" wrote:
> > > (or any other tests for non-disabled code, actually).
> >
> > Maybe embedded PIC should be disabled for targets which have no
> > use for it.
>
> That would be fine with me.
>
> However, if people are going to go down this road, I'd like to say
> that I think people making "mips-linux specific" changes should always
> test mips-elf (or other generic mips embedded targets) as well, since
> in the past the former have caused a lot of breakage in the latter.
>
> (That's why i like having the empic tests there all the time. ... if
> you don't want them there and don't want the code, that's fine... but
> you can't skip the testing. 8-)
I agree with this. The tests need to be run - there isn't really a
problem with having it enabled for mips-linux either. I don't have an
overwhelming opinion and if the majority of the users want to disable it
for linux that's fine - but it does mean you have to test for mips-elf
as well.
-eric
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