From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
To: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:46:00 -0000
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Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:

> > I can't see how a non SysV MIPS ABI can be 
> > expected to comply with a SysV standard.
> 
> AFAICS this use of R_MIPS_64 isn't covered by any ABI.

To make my point in a different way, the GNU tools do a lot of things
which aren't covered by any ABI.  That doesn't make them wrong.

For example, the i386 ELF backend supports 8-bit and 16-bit
relocations.  They are not covered by any ABI, but they are required
to build 16-bit code used by PC bootstrap code.

Ian