Steven J. Hill wrote: [snip] >Without the binutils patch, all binaries compiled for MIPS/Linux >will be IRIX flavored which was the whole problem. Please may You elaborate about this? AFAICS, the IRIX flavour can't be a problem by itself. >I would now >like to make 'elf[32|64]_trad[little|big]mips' be the official >targets instead of 'elf[32|64]_[little|big]mips' which is what >things currently are. This means changing of linker scripts in >GLIBC as well as the Linux kernel (as far as I can tell). I would >like to propose the any 'mips*-*-linux-gnu' and 'mips*el-*linux-gnu' >targets be pure traditional targets WITHOUT any emulated IRIX targets >which are the current 'elf[32|64]_[little|big]mips' targets. Please >provide feedback, comments, etc. with justification. Thanks. Changing the MIPS/Linux ABI to circumvent a toolchain bug seems to be a bit extremistic. Am I missing some important details? Thiemo
