MIPS gas is broken now.

[Thiemo Seufer]

Eric Christopher wrote:
[snip]
> > However, if people are going to go down this road, I'd like to say
> > that I think people making "mips-linux specific" changes should always
> > test mips-elf (or other generic mips embedded targets) as well, since
> > in the past the former have caused a lot of breakage in the latter.
> > 
> > (That's why i like having the empic tests there all the time.  ... if
> > you don't want them there and don't want the code, that's fine... but
> > you can't skip the testing.  8-)
> 
> I agree with this. The tests need to be run - there isn't really a
> problem with having it enabled for mips-linux either.

The problem with it is (in this special case) that we either regard
testsuite failures as normal or we require all MIPS ELF targets to
use BFD64 for no better reason than running the testsuite.

> I don't have an
> overwhelming opinion and if the majority of the users want to disable it
> for linux

I believe the majority of the users won't even care about it. :-)

> that's fine - but it does mean you have to test for mips-elf
> as well.

This is a good idea in any case.


Thiemo