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Re: Sgi-style and traditional-style elf format used by mips

From: Thiemo Seufer <ths at networkno dot de>
To: "Fu, He Wei PSE NKG" <hewei dot fu at siemens dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:57:25 +0000
Subject: Re: Sgi-style and traditional-style elf format used by mips
References: <96E7D5519FC3D741BEE27AB88C7387970173C22C@PEKW934A.cn001.siemens.net>

Fu, He Wei PSE NKG wrote:
> Are there anyone know the detailed difference between "sgi-style" and
> "traditional-style" elf format used by mips,or where can find relevent
> document of them?? Thanks in advance.

I'm afraid there is no such document. "traditional" stems AFAIK from
a format compatible enough to the original MIPS RiscOS, while "sgi"
strives for compatibility with the SGI IRIX toolchain. Linux adopted
the "traditional" format some years ago because it is closer to the
ELF variants supported by the GNU toolchain on other architectures.

Thiemo

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