Re: mips gas is horribly broken

[Doug Evans <dje at transmeta dot com>]

H . J . Lu writes:
 > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:12:36AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
 > > 
 > > I haven't looked at the code.  It's quite possible that any addend
 > > value is legal.  I wasn't suggesting that you use
 > > _bfd_mips_elf_generic_reloc.  I was suggesting that in the assembler
 > > you change the addend and the object file so that the result comes out
 > > right without ever having an addend of zero.  That is generally how
 > > these sorts of problems are solved now: by adding hacks to gas.  Of
 > > course, each hack makes it harder to implement the right solution.
 > 
 > According to Geoffrey, that is what was tried last time and it is how
 > we got what we have today. I guess I will have to put my hack in my
 > private binutils. I will conditionally apply my patch only if the bfd
 > includes the ELF/mips target.

I thought you said you didn't want to keep maintaining your
private binutils ...