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Re: Patch: Switch Linux/mips to stabs
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Subject: Re: Patch: Switch Linux/mips to stabs
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 07:12:39 +0200 (MET DST)
- cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, GDB <gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>, linux-mips at oss dot sgi dot com
- Organization: Technical University of Gdansk
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, H . J . Lu wrote:
> * config.bfd: Remove ecoff from Linux/mips.
Is it really needed to remove ecoff-littlemips and ecoff-bigmips targets
from the list of default ones for MIPS/Linux? COFF is the format used by
the firmware of certain MIPS-based machines for network-booting, certainly
by DECstations and I'm told that older SGI workstations use this format,
too. While the elf2ecoff tool as bundled with the kernel seem to be
sufficient to prepare a suitable COFF image, it's grossly limited in
functionality and was added only as a workaround to bugs in binutils.
Maciej
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