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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:47:00 -0000
To: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com>, binutils@sources.redhat.com,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS gas/ld test suite portability fixes
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From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
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Richard Sandiford wrote:
[snip]
> >> Anyone who's seriously interested in building 64-bit
> >> code should use a 64-bit configuration, not something like mipstx39-elf,
> >> mipsisa32-linux-gnu or whatever. That's especially true when you
> >> consider that a 32-bit-only configuration won't build any compatible
> >> libraries.
> >
> > Which is IMHO a bug in gcc, because -mabi=n?? should be fully usable.
> > (If this isn't true for some mips*-elf targets, then -mabi should
> > probably be an invalid option for these.)
> 
> And mips-linux-gnu, mipsisa32-linux-gnu, etc. as well, presumably?
> We don't build n32 libraries for them either, and nor should we.

Why do we have -mabi then if it isn't supposed to be useful for
userland builds?


Thiemo