Hi, On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:55:30AM -0500, Jay Carlson wrote: > Right. In my ideal world, here's how it would work: > > cc1 defaults to -G0. I think we have that now. > > gas defaults to -G0. Messing with SUBTARGET_ASM_SPEC has that effect > for people who use the gcc driver, but anybody invoking gas directly > will still hit this problem, but too bad. > > So I think the primary constituency for gas defaulting to -G8 are > existing cygnuhhhh I mean redhat embedded MIPS customers, outside of > Linux; that's who we should check with before we change the default. We cannot change the default for non-Linux MIPS users without causing massive problems. As far as I know, everybody uses -G8 as the default, which can include such things as libraries (which may be delivered as binary only). So this is probably one of these things where the Linux/MIPS world will do one thing, and the rest something else. /Hartvig
