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Re: On resolving the MIPS gas branch reloc issue
- From: Dominic Sweetman <dom at algor dot co dot uk>
- To: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>, Dominic Sweetman <dom at mips dot com>, Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>, cgd at broadcom dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:21:19 +0000
- Subject: Re: On resolving the MIPS gas branch reloc issue
- References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1030228123913.7989A-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl><1046472971.1315.19.camel@ghostwheel.ges.redhat.com>
Eric Christopher (echristo at redhat dot com) writes:
> Is he creating a new document or a new abi?
A new document, which is supposed to describe all the existing ABIs
(o32, n32, n64).
I'm *not* very keen to transcribe bunches of C structures defining
object files into acres of tables in a manual; but we haven't
re-written anything about object files yet.
It isn't clear that n32/n64 are the right standards for embedded use,
particularly in a world (unlike the SGI one where they were invented)
which has 32-bit as well as 64-bit CPUs. But knowing what we've got
is a sensible first step to talking about anything else.
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Dominic Sweetman
MIPS Technologies
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