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Re: a bunch of MIPS GAS testsuite failures.
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- Subject: Re: a bunch of MIPS GAS testsuite failures.
- From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:30:17 +0200
cgd@sibyte.com wrote:
> So, more in the way of figuring out the state of the world. I've now
> expanded my builds to:
>
> mips-elf mips64-elf
> mipsel-elf mips64el-elf
> mips-linux mipsel-linux
> mips64-linux mips64el-linux
> mips-ecoff mipsel-ecoff
First of all, thanks for doing this boring work.
[snip]
> These (and the XPASSes for "MIPS64 reloc 2")
> are due to incorrect marking of little-endian MIPS as
> "traditional mips." I dunno why that was done, but it seems
> to have been done intentionally.
The non-traditional mips is SGI'ish, they don't make little endian
MIPS machines. So treating little endian as traditional is a wrong
but half-working approach.
Thiemo