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Re: [PATCH RFA] small fix to MIPS abi selection/decoding.
At Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:53:47 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> The reasoning goes like this:
>
> "This default should not exist. It exists ONLY for backwards
> compatibility, so we don't suddenly start marking object files
> incompatibly. The bogusity uses that we are trying to handle only
> exist for MIPS1 - MIPS4. Everything else should specify its ABI. Even
> those should. Really."
OK, i guess that's not _too_ unreasonable.
Anyway, it doesn't look like there's a problem linking the e.g. -mips4
objects with -mips64 objects because of the latter having no ABI set,
so "whatever" for that part.
Eric, how about the rest of that patch?
cgd