Re: differences between mips64-elf and mips-ecoff ?

[Ricky Charlet <rcharlet at redcreek dot com>]

Ricky Charlet wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> 
>         What are the differences between the targets mips64-elf and
> mips-ecoff?  I don't know what the elf and ecoff parts are for. But if I
> compile for a 64bit architecture mips chip will that necessarily mean
> that I should build a mips64-elf compiler?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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Howdy,
	In further reading, I have found out that ecoff was an old (and from
what I read unsucessful) attempt to develop a binary object encoding
format which would apply to a large range of processors and become an
open standard. elf format is more mips specific. 

	Now I am makeing an infernece here, the rest of this is not something
I've read. Because ecoff is quite old, and there seems to be no such
mips64-ecoff target I assume that MIPS III & IV ISA (with the 64 bit
modes) were defined only in mips elf formats. And therefore mips64-elf
is the only target which will run a mips chip in 64 bit mode.



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