On resolving the MIPS gas branch reloc issue

[Dominic Sweetman]

Eric Christopher (echristo@redhat.com) writes:

> Is he creating a new document or a new abi?

A new document, which is supposed to describe all the existing ABIs
(o32, n32, n64).

I'm *not* very keen to transcribe bunches of C structures defining
object files into acres of tables in a manual; but we haven't
re-written anything about object files yet.

It isn't clear that n32/n64 are the right standards for embedded use,
particularly in a world (unlike the SGI one where they were invented)
which has 32-bit as well as 64-bit CPUs.  But knowing what we've got
is a sensible first step to talking about anything else.

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