[PATCH RFA] small fix to MIPS abi selection/decoding.

[cgd@broadcom.com]

At Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:53:47 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> The reasoning goes like this:
> 
> "This default should not exist.  It exists ONLY for backwards
> compatibility, so we don't suddenly start marking object files
> incompatibly.  The bogusity uses that we are trying to handle only
> exist for MIPS1 - MIPS4.  Everything else should specify its ABI.  Even
> those should.  Really."

OK, i guess that's not _too_ unreasonable.

Anyway, it doesn't look like there's a problem linking the e.g. -mips4
objects with -mips64 objects because of the latter having no ABI set,
so "whatever" for that part.


Eric, how about the rest of that patch?


cgd