On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:47:40PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > Arguably, whatever's used by binutils should be the tie-breaker. > Googling around, I see that the EM_MIPS_RS3_LE value was > added in the October 4, 1999 draft of the ELF spec, but inexplicably > the alias with EM_MIPS_RS4_BE was left in place - perhaps they > were supposed to be disambiguated by some 32-vs-64-bit flag > somewhere. A random sampling of ELF documents on the web > shows the vast majority calling out RS3_LE and not RS4_BE. No way to actually resolve this one; not even binutils oldtimer Ian Lance Taylor can remember the reasons for the change anymore. Ralf