RFA: Recording MIPS ABI selection in binaries

[Andrew Cagney]

Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 06:49:10PM -0700, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> > And what purpose is there in expressing that a binary uses exactly one
> > ISA's/CPU's type of instructions, i.e. why should it be encoded the
> > way it is?  Use of an ISA is not exclusive; you can use multiple ISAs
> > in a single executable, with (strongly desirable) good effect.
> 
> Actually, this brings up a good point: perhaps this ought to be
> done per compilation unit rather than for the entire binary.

N'kay.  It would definitly help GDB/objdumps abilities to dissamble
correctly.

	Andrew