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Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas
- To: matthew green <mrg at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:06:55 -0700
- Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>,Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- References: <20010831164429.B6518@lucon.org> <14707.999304901@cygnus.com>
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:41:41AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>
> If you take a close look at the mips linker codes, most of it is to
> deal with dynamic binaries, which was rarely tested before. I guess
> Linux/mips is the only platform on which the mips linker gets really
> tested, just like the i386 ELF linker/assembler.
>
>
> hmm? i don't recall exactly when i started using netbsd/pmax, but it
> was over 3 years ago. it was around the time they switched from ECOFF
> to ELF (after NetBSD 1.3? i forget).
>
> seems to have been working pretty well during this time.
Not even close. Just check the recent ld/gas ChangeLog entries for
mips/ELF.
H.J.