Re: [patch] GAS supports for MIPS32 MT ASE

["Chao-ying Fu" <fu at mips dot com>]

  Ok.  I will use -mmt/-mno-mt.
But, not all GAS options have the same style.
Ex, -mips16/-no-mips16, -mips3d/-no-mips3d
Should the options be -mmips16/-mno-mips16 and
-mmips3d/-mno-mips3d?

Regards,
Chao-ying

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thiemo Seufer" <ths@networkno.de>
To: "Chao-ying Fu" <fu@mips.com>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>; "Eric Christopher"
<echristo@apple.com>; "Thekkath, Radhika" <radhika@mips.com>;
<binutils@sourceware.org>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [patch] GAS supports for MIPS32 MT ASE


> Chao-ying Fu wrote:
> > Ok.  I fixed all the issues except the option name
> > -mt/-mno-mt, because it seems redundant to have two "m"s (-mmt).
> > Any suggestion?
>
> It really should be -mmt/-mno-mt in order to be compatible to the gcc
> conventions. This avoids hackery in the gcc driver like it was needed
> to distinguish -mipsN from -m<linker-emulation>, especially in the
> light of future generic options which may start with -m.
>
>
> Thiemo
>