traditional mips vs. little endian?

[Eric Christopher]

> Err, agree with which?  8-)
> 

I was thinking changing the default abi, but your arguments are
compelling...

> 
> * making the test-case consistent w/ the configury as it is now, or
> 
> * Making only IRIX use the SGI ABI ('non-traditional'), and move all
> existing non-os-specific 'embedded' targets (incl. mips-elf and
> mipsel-elf) over to 'traditional mips' (or worse, even the non-IRIX
> OS-specific ones)?
> 
> 
> I don't really like latter choice, but don't _deeply_ care either.
> Certainly it would make things more consistent, but is it really
> desirable to change the ABI and configuration in use for ... who knows
> how long, for those targets?

Good point.  I'd like to use a different ABI by default, but I'm not
sure what the deal would be with breaking all of the previous.  Does
anyone have any advice here?

-eric

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