From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
To: mark@codesourcery.com
Cc: geoffk@ozemail.com.au, gavin@cygnus.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com, brendan@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Reloc changes to bfd/elf32-mips.c
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:25:00 -0000
Message-id: <19990929152418.26943.qmail@daffy.airs.com>
References: <199909271118.VAA01663@gluttony.geoffk.wattle.id.au> <19990928005956V.mitchell@codesourcery.com> <199909290330.NAA00657@gluttony.geoffk.wattle.id.au> <19990928222137W.mitchell@codesourcery.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-09/msg00207.html

   From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
   Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:21:37 -0700

   I think it's OK to have `ld' (as an extension) handle this case.  But,
   we really should fix GAS.  It would be useful (I know this because
   customers have told me so :-)) to be able to assemble things with GAS,
   but link them with the MIPS linker.  The .o files that GAS creates are
   not ABI-compliant, and not for any particularly good reason.  (In
   other words, I don't see a real performance improvement/useful feature
   that the "incorrect" ordering buys you.)

Yeah, I guess we fix up unmatched %hi relocs, but we don't bother to
ensure that we don't have a leading %lo reloc.  If anybody wants to
fix this, the code is in mips_frob_file in gas/config/tc-mips.c.

Ian