Re: check mips abi x linker emulation compatibility

[Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 15:41, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 20, 2003, Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Actually, I was going to say something like mipsn64 and mips64 :)
> 
> mips64-linux-gnu-abi64 and mips64-linux-gnu-abin32 are recognized by
> glibc, a change I made after my initial mips64{n32,n64,o32} attempt
> because it was rejected by the maintainer of config.{guess,sub}, and I
> actually disliked it myself.  If you want to set the ABI, use the
> existing convention of specifying it after linux-gnu, as done in
> -altivec and other multi-abi systems.
> 

Ah ha. There's a precedent somewhere :)

> /me thinks n32 should definitely be the default for mips64-linux-gnu,
> in the absence of an explicit abi specification.

Agreed.

-eric

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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>