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Re: PATCH: Fix mixing MIPS object files.
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at redhat dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:43:41 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix mixing MIPS object files.
- Organization: Technical University of Gdansk
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > - The main reason for varying EF_MIPS_ARCH for a given EF_MIPS_MACH
> > seems to be to say that a binary contains 32-bit code. There are
> > other flags for that.
>
> Linux 32bit MIPS kernel won't load any MIPS binaries marked MIPS III
> or above.
It will. While MIPS III doesn't add anything useful for the 32-bit mode,
MIPS IV does. The kernel actually doesn't care of the ISA -- it checks
the ABI to run o32 executables only..
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