[PATCH] LD/PE: Remove remains of MIPS target support

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@orcam.me.uk
Thu Aug 21 13:12:42 GMT 2025


On Mon, 18 Aug 2025, Sam James wrote:

> > Support for ECOFF MIPS targets, including `mips*-*-pe*' among others, 
> > has been removed from GAS and LD with commit e8044f355dc9 ("Remove gas 
> > and ld support for MIPS ECOFF"), 
> > <https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/8761x65bzx.fsf@talisman.default/>.
> > However bits in PEI-format DLL support code have been left behind.
> 
> By the way (I have no interest in the target, so it's not a statement
> asking for restoration), to my surprise, I saw LLVM recently added
> more support for MIPS COFF:
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/107744.

 I'll be happy to review a reintroduction patch as long as it comes with a 
reference to a specification documenting the file format.  It doesn't have 
to be an original one.

  Maciej


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