Re: [PATCH] MIPS gas/ld test suite portability fixes

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>]

Richard Sandiford wrote:
[snip]
> >> Anyone who's seriously interested in building 64-bit
> >> code should use a 64-bit configuration, not something like mipstx39-elf,
> >> mipsisa32-linux-gnu or whatever. That's especially true when you
> >> consider that a 32-bit-only configuration won't build any compatible
> >> libraries.
> >
> > Which is IMHO a bug in gcc, because -mabi=n?? should be fully usable.
> > (If this isn't true for some mips*-elf targets, then -mabi should
> > probably be an invalid option for these.)
> 
> And mips-linux-gnu, mipsisa32-linux-gnu, etc. as well, presumably?
> We don't build n32 libraries for them either, and nor should we.

Why do we have -mabi then if it isn't supposed to be useful for
userland builds?


Thiemo