RFA: MIPS/dwarf-2: gas patches

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> The net effect should be that the only way to get a .mdebug section
> generated on MIPS is to ask for ECOFF assembler debugging.  I'm
> currently talking to Eric about obsoleting all the MIPS ECOFF targets
> anyway, since we haven't been able to roust up a single user lately.
> I believe some *BSD people use it for a boot format, but they don't
> compile directly to it.

 Well, due to bugs in binutils Linux uses elf2ecoff to make a COFF kernel
executable.  Fixing the bugs is on my to-do list (not very high, though). 
We can probably live without ECOFF debugging, OTOH. 

 Then there is Ultrix as well.  I can't state how many people still use
it, but chances are if tools work, nobody reports being a user. 

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