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Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas


On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 05:49:22PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > 
> > I'm talking about:
> > 
> > SYSTEM V APPLICATION BINARY INTERFACE
> > MIPS RISC Processor Supplement
> > 3rd Edition
> > 
> > where no such relocation is defined.
> 
> Keep in mind that there is often a gap between a standard and the real 
> (aka embedded) world.  I can't see how a non SysV MIPS ABI can be 
> expected to comply with a SysV standard.
> 

If I am rightt, the main problem is Thiemo and I want to support a
real MIPS ELF ABI, which mostly means dynamic binaries. As the most
ELF ABI, the MIPS ABI doesn't really cover static binaries. You can
do whatever you want with static binaries. It doesn't really matter
if you follow an ABI or not since a static binary is a standalone
binary. Let me ask, how many binutils developers are using the
current binutils to generate mips dynamic binaries?


H.J.


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