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Re: [PATCH] Add MIPS sde configurations to ld


Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:20:34PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > I applied the appended patch, it adds MIPS sde configurations to ld.
> 
> Handling triplets differently based on the vendor field is generally
> frowned upon.  Why are these necessary?

For the same reason the mips*-sde-elf* configuration is used in the
other binutils tools. It provides an MIPS embedded ELF configuration
which uses the "traditional" object format.

See also http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-08/msg00131.html


Thiemo


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