MIPS IRIX compatibility vs. mips-elf

Richard Sandiford rsandifo@redhat.com
Fri Jan 28 17:37:00 GMT 2005


Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> Of course, it's not quite clear what the value of mips-elf dynamic
> executables is.  But it would be mildly nice if it worked, since that
> gives us better test coverage for the -shared tests.

Hmm.  Does it really make sense to test -shared on a mips*-elf target?
It's only really designed to handle static executables, so there's no
well-defined "right" output.

(Not that I'm objecting to removing IRIX compatibility, btw.)

Richard



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