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Re: PATCH: Fix mixing MIPS object files.


On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> > > Well, I noticed earlier today that at least "mipsel-linux-gcc -mips3"
> > > will refuse to use 64-bit registers unless you give it -mgp64. 
> > > MASK_64BIT doesn't get set.  So that one is clear, and I believe so is
> > > gcc -march=xxx.
> > 
> > Is that also true for gcc < 3.0?
> 
> I believe so, but I don't have tools to test with.

 Well, I don't think there exists a reference gcc < 3.0 for MIPS/Linux, so
the behaviour depends on the set of patches used.  The version I use
(2.95.4) has "-mgp64" forced in its specs for "-mips3" and above, so it
doesn't work as expected.  It can be fixed, but I don't care at this
stage.

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