On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:17:40AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > >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. > Changing the MIPS/Linux ABI to circumvent a toolchain bug seems > to be a bit extremistic. Am I missing some important details? IRIX ELF orders the symbol table of object files in a way that violates the ABI. Worse, these IRIX specialities are not documented anywhere. Changing to ABI ELF only makes them look as they're supposed to ... Ralf
