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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