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Re: mips64 n32 and n64 support in dl-machine.h
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>,libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:46:59 -0800
- Subject: Re: mips64 n32 and n64 support in dl-machine.h
> It's not only this. The whole concept the mips "ABI" (I wouldn't even
> call it that) uses is broken. MIPS alone would have as many ABIs as all
> the others architectures. Somebody who is not MIPS-affiliated should
> design one new ABI and all the old ABIs should be forgotten. Adding any
> of these changes would increase maintenance costs considerably for no
> benefit except for MIPS. So it's them who have to carry the load by
> maintaining their own branch if they insist on these braindamaged ABIs
> to exist.
That attitude doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I don't see a maintenance
burden on the generic code from any of the mips-related changes that I have
seen so far. Inventing yet another ABI just because the existing ones are
stupid does not seem especially wise.