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Re: Bad ELF header when mixing MIPS II with MIPS I
Eric Christopher wrote:
>
> > I agree with H.J. that the resulting executable should reflect the "largest"
> > ISA of all the objects that make up the executable. Seems sort of logical,
> > really.
> >
>
> Ok. What I thought HJ was complaining was that he had two object files:
>
> foo.o: Containing mipsI insns only
> crt0.o: Containing some mipsII insns
>
> Each one had the flags for the particular ISA set (mipsI or mipsII).
>
> He then linked them together and was surprised when the superset
> (mipsII) was given in the final executable...
He didn't get MIPS II but MIPS I.
> Or was I mistaken in my reading?
BFD doesn't merge the EF_MIPS_ARCH header flag in a sane way.
The ld result simply gets the ISA flag of the first object file
given.
Thiemo