From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
To: kk@ddeorg.soft.net
Cc: bfd@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: GNU linker for mips-*-sysv4*
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 22:05:00 -0000
Message-id: <199808020505.WAA02545@rtl.cygnus.com>
References: <199807301435.UAA16090@bombay.ddeorg.soft.net>
X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00068.html

   Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 20:05:23 +0530
   From: "Koundinya.K" <kk@ddeorg.soft.net>

	   I am a newcomer to this list. I have trying to port the gnubinutils 2.9.1 for 
   my system running SVR4.2 O.S. on a Super Max Business Server supplied by Dansk 
   Data Electronik Denamrk (with a mips cpu),  which is one of the members of the 
   MIPS abi group.

   For the gnu linker , since the configuration for me is not supported I am 
   using the mips-sgi-irix5* configuration (elf32bsmp).

   My system supports the elf32bit format.

   I don't understand what the 's' in elf32bsmp stands for. Also What is the 
   suggested configuration for linker that I can use.

The difference between elf32bmip and elf32bsmip is simply that the
latter sets ENTRY to __start.  This is the symbol used for the
starting address on Irix systems.

I don't know what configuration is best for your system.  The Irix
configuration sounds like a good start.

Ian