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Re: MIPS IRIX compatibility vs. mips-elf
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:37:31PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> > Of course, it's not quite clear what the value of mips-elf dynamic
> > executables is. But it would be mildly nice if it worked, since that
> > gives us better test coverage for the -shared tests.
>
> Hmm. Does it really make sense to test -shared on a mips*-elf target?
> It's only really designed to handle static executables, so there's no
> well-defined "right" output.
>
> (Not that I'm objecting to removing IRIX compatibility, btw.)
It's true that it's not clear what the right output is. My precedent
is that it turned out assorted embedded folks actually do use shared
libraries with arm-elf (in one way or another).
Either's fine with me...
--
Daniel Jacobowitz