gdb-7.8 MIPS assert failure in findvar.c

[Joel Brobecker]

> An assert failure on MIPS big-endian in findvar.c was fixed in
> HEAD, but not applied to gdb-7.8.
> 
> The patch is here:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-08/msg00567.html
> 
> Applied and tested on gdb-7.8.  OK to apply to gdb-7.8-branch?

Do you really need this in the gdb-7.8 branch? This branch isn't
exactly completely closed, but the chances of us making another
release off of it are very small.

Anyway, if useful to you, go ahead and push to that branch.

-- 
Joel