traditional mips vs. little endian?
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@cygnus.com
Tue Aug 7 10:54:00 GMT 2001
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:07:32PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>>
>> Perhaphs the question to ask is: is this being done for technical or
>> asthetic reasons?
>
>
> It is done purely for technical reasons on Linux/mips. We only support
> the SVR4 ABI, not the SGI ABI. I doubt any non-SGI mips targets support
> the SGI ABI.
I can read this several ways: target=mips-pc-linux-gnu gives SVR4 ABI by
default; or host/build=*-linux* target=mips* gives SVR4 ABI by default.
The latter is asthetic.
Andrew
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