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From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix MIPS ELF64 relocation howtos
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010827224500.G4669@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B8AA714.10209@cygnus.com>

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >Good. While we are on it, here are things I'd like to see in the new
> >`traditional 64bit MIPS ELF ABI':
> 
> 
> Really stupid question.  How can a ``new'' ABI be ``traditional''? 
> Surely traditional is what ever the abi turned out to be as a 
> consequence of history?

It's "new" in the sense of having a different calling convention
and can make better use of the 64bit chips capabilities. It's
"traditional" since it doesn't do some weird features like
different symbol sorting as it was introduced by SGI when they
introduced NewABI.


Thiemo

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-27 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-26 17:38 Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-26 17:50 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-26 18:02   ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-27 11:32     ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-27 11:44       ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-27 12:00         ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-27 12:41           ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-27 12:49             ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-27 13:13             ` Eric Christopher
2001-08-27 13:23               ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-31 20:11               ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-08-27 13:01           ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-27 13:45             ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2001-08-27 14:06               ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-28  8:52                 ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-09-06 14:34 ` Thiemo Seufer

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