MIPS gas is broken now.

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Thiemo Seufer wrote:

> > 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.

 Do any empic tests explicitly need BFD64?  If so, they need to be fixed
or disabled (the ones that are irrelevant for a plain 32-bit
configuration), regardless of the target, be it linux, irix, elf or
whatever.

> > that's fine - but it does mean you have to test for mips-elf
> > as well.
> 
> This is a good idea in any case.

 Well, spending another hour each time to build and test for another
target looks entirely unexciting.  It might be worse even for a native
build -- about 3 hours on my R3k system. :-(  I certainly prefer all
applicable tests to be run in a single pass.

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