Re: [PATCH] Fix MIPS ELF64 relocation howtos

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >It's "new" in the sense of having a different calling convention
> >and can make better use of the 64bit chips capabilities. It's
> >"traditional" since it doesn't do some weird features like
> >different symbol sorting as it was introduced by SGI when they
> >introduced NewABI.
> 
> Ah!  In that case could I strongly encourage people to drop the terms 
> ``new'' and ``traditional'' and, instead, give it a name?  Hmm, 
> NewTraditional64 (nt64) is probably not a good choice :-)

I don't have a good name for it, too.

> Is it safe for me to assume that a mips64-elf toolchain isn't suddenly 
> going to start producing this as output?

Switching from REL to RELA as default will also affect mips64-elf.


Thiemo