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Re: EM_MIPS* constants
- To: Ralf Baechle <ralf at uni-koblenz dot de>
- Subject: Re: EM_MIPS* constants
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>
- Date: 09 May 2001 19:18:51 -0700
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20010509230158.A2326@bacchus.dhis.org>
Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> writes:
> #define EM_MIPS 8 /* MIPS R3000 (officially, big-endian only) */
> #define EM_MIPS_RS4_BE 10 /* MIPS R4000 big-endian */ /* Depreciated */
> #define EM_MIPS_RS3_LE 10 /* MIPS R3000 little-endian (Oct 4 1999 Draft)*/
>
> I checked with registry@sco.com; according to them EM_MIPS_RS3_LE was
> registered as 10 in '92 and they don't know about EM_MIPS_RS4_BE which is
> also lurking around in other free code such as the Linux kernel.
>
> So the question is, did EM_MIPS_RS4_BE ever get used? To date I haven't
> seen any objects which marked as architecture 10 nor any code using
> EM_MIPS_RS4_BE when generating object files, so I think it should be deleted
> before causing even more confusion.
As far as I know it was never used.
Ian