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Re: check mips abi x linker emulation compatibility
On May 8, 2003, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> At Thu, 8 May 2003 16:58:29 +0000 (UTC), "Alexandre Oliva" wrote:
>> How about this instead: add -mabi=neutral or -mabi=from-arch or
>> something like that, and use this flag on mips targets that have a
>> non-neutral default?
> There _isn't_ really a "neutral" ABI, though, is there?
What if none of the ABI bits are set?
Except for the fact that we have to make a choice between elf32 or
elf64 early on, it can remain neutral for longer...
> no-abi is just one of the commonly-expected ones (o32 or o64,
> usually), but not marked, right?
I suppose so.
> It sounds like what you're asking for is a "no-abi-marking" flag.
Nope. I want something that disables the assembler's default, so that
it can figure it out as if the target configured for was a generic
mips target.
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