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Re: MIPS IRIX compatibility vs. mips-elf
- From: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at redhat dot com>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:37:31 +0000
- Subject: Re: MIPS IRIX compatibility vs. mips-elf
- References: <20050128164621.GA21291@nevyn.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> Of course, it's not quite clear what the value of mips-elf dynamic
> executables is. But it would be mildly nice if it worked, since that
> gives us better test coverage for the -shared tests.
Hmm. Does it really make sense to test -shared on a mips*-elf target?
It's only really designed to handle static executables, so there's no
well-defined "right" output.
(Not that I'm objecting to removing IRIX compatibility, btw.)
Richard