[PATCH] Fix MIPS ELF64 relocation howtos

Thiemo Seufer ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
Mon Aug 27 13:45:00 GMT 2001


Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >Good. While we are on it, here are things I'd like to see in the new
> >`traditional 64bit MIPS ELF ABI':
> 
> 
> Really stupid question.  How can a ``new'' ABI be ``traditional''? 
> Surely traditional is what ever the abi turned out to be as a 
> consequence of history?

It's "new" in the sense of having a different calling convention
and can make better use of the 64bit chips capabilities. It's
"traditional" since it doesn't do some weird features like
different symbol sorting as it was introduced by SGI when they
introduced NewABI.


Thiemo



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