Re: PATCH: Fix the MIPS ISA ELF setting (Re: RedHat 7.1/mips update)

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:30:07PM -0800, Eric M. Christopher wrote:
> 
> > > -march=r4100 -mips2
> > > 
> > > which means to use instructions from mips2 plus those from r4100.
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> I don't think that this is going to work in the compiler any time soon.

I don't think compiler will generate those by itself. They are from
the asm statement.

> 
> > 
> > Any comments on this patch?
> 
> I'd like to hold off until the above works. I'm liking the idea that the
> assembler sets the arch and isa in the elf header, but I don't see it
> helping with what he wants at the moment.  I think more checking for

I was told he was happy with my changes. You can also get it from

http://oss.sgi.com/mips/archive/linux-mips.0110

and search for "Re: cross development tools" from Jim Paris
<jim@jtan.com>.

Jim, could you please CC your email to the binutils mailing list? 

> various processors might be needed as well. I've thought about making
> all of this table driven.

Most of processor specific instructions are not generated by gcc.


H.J.