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Re: a bunch of MIPS GAS testsuite failures.


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


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