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Re: On resolving the MIPS gas branch reloc issue
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- To: Dominic Sweetman <dom at algor dot co dot uk>
- Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>, Dominic Sweetman <dom at mips dot com>, Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>, cgd at broadcom dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 28 Feb 2003 16:01:51 -0800
- Subject: Re: On resolving the MIPS gas branch reloc issue
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On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 15:21, Dominic Sweetman wrote:
>
> Eric Christopher (echristo at redhat dot com) writes:
>
> > Is he creating a new document or a new abi?
>
> A new document, which is supposed to describe all the existing ABIs
> (o32, n32, n64).
>
OK.
> I'm *not* very keen to transcribe bunches of C structures defining
> object files into acres of tables in a manual; but we haven't
> re-written anything about object files yet.
>
Are you documenting what's written in code or what _should_ be written
in code?
> It isn't clear that n32/n64 are the right standards for embedded use,
> particularly in a world (unlike the SGI one where they were invented)
> which has 32-bit as well as 64-bit CPUs. But knowing what we've got
> is a sensible first step to talking about anything else.
>
I agree.
-eric
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