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Re: Patch to add -mfp32 support to MIPS gas
- To: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>
- Subject: Re: Patch to add -mfp32 support to MIPS gas
- From: Richard Sandiford <r dot sandiford at redhat dot com>
- Date: 23 Jul 2001 17:59:55 +0100
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20010720211737.C16278@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> Another Question, what happens if somebody specifies
> "-mips1 -mcpu=r10000 -mfp=64" ? AFAICS it sets mips_32bitmode
> and uses 64bit FPR's, which creates bad ELF object files.
Is your objection is that it's possible to silently link executables
assembled with -mfp32 with others assembled with -mfp64? There's no
separate ELF header bit to indicate the FPR size, so I don't see how
we can avoid that.