RFC: mips target support for Juniper Apollo

Thiemo Seufer ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
Wed Mar 10 18:38:00 GMT 2004


cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> At Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:59:06 +0000 (UTC), "Jim Wilson" wrote:
[snip]
> It *really* *really* *really* should have a different E_MACHINE value,
> since it is *fundamentally* incompatible with MIPS.
> 
> (Whether or not it should ever call itself "mips" in binutils is
> another question, and one that could get fairly ugly.)

IMHO it shouldn't be called "mips", because it is incompatible to any
MIPS ISA. Merging it in the MIPS implementation is still ok, however.


Thiemo



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