Dear All, I am working on our TX39xx(32-bit MIPS) reference board . The problem occurs in the assembly code generation for "la" instruction. The line, "la t3, mips_cputype" , generated the following two assembly codes: lui $t3,0x8019 daddiu $t3,$t3,14712 <---- my system crashed at this 64-bit instruction I would like to know why the "daddiu" instruction is generated instead of "addiu" for MIP1 code. The following lists my development environment: 1. Cross compiler: binutils-mips-linux-2.8.1-1.i386 and egcs-mips-linux-1.0.3a-2.i386 2. Linux Kernel source: linux-2.2.13-20000211 3. The gcc command line display by specify -v option: gcc version egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release) /usr/lib/gcc-lib/mips-linux/egcs-2.90.29/cpp -lang-asm -v -I/work/adhawk/linux-2.2.13-20000211/include -undef -$ -D__ELF__ -D__PIC__ -D__pic__ -Dunix -Dmips -DR3000 -DMIPSEB -Dlinux -D__ELF__ -D__PIC__ -D__pic__ -D__unix__ -D__mips__ -D__R3000__ -D__MIPSEB__ -D__linux__ -D__unix -D__mips -D__R3000 -D__MIPSEB -D__linux -Asystem(linux) -Asystem(posix) -Acpu(mips) -Amachine(mips) -D__ASSEMBLER__ -D__OPTIMIZE__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -D__LANGUAGE_ASSEMBLY -D_LANGUAGE_ASSEMBLY -DLANGUAGE_ASSEMBLY -D__SIZE_TYPE__=unsigned int -D__PTRDIFF_TYPE__=int -D_MIPS_FPSET=16 -D_MIPS_ISA=_MIPS_ISA_MIPS1 -D_MIPS_SIM=_MIPS_SIM_ABI32 -D_MIPS_SZINT=32 -D__SIZE_TYPE__=unsigned int -D__SSIZE_TYPE__=int -D__PTRDIFF_TYPE__=int -D_MIPS_SZLONG=32 -D_MIPS_SZPTR=32 -D_MIPS_SZLONG=32 -D_MIPS_SZPTR=32 -U__mips64 -U__PIC__ -U__pic__ -D__KERNEL__ -DADHAWK head.S I am quite new to the Linux world. There are definitely something that I did not setup properly. If anyone know the reason, your help is highly appreciated. Also, what are the latest and stable tool-chain for MIP1 big-endian development? Thanks, Lisa Hsu Multimedia Application Group TAEC, Toshiba 408-526-2771 lisa.hsu@taec.toshiba.com