From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricky Charlet To: crossgcc@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: differences between mips64-elf and mips-ecoff ? Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:51:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A0C2832.B06217B1@redcreek.com> References: <3A0AE237.EC764AEF@redcreek.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-11/msg00037.html Ricky Charlet wrote: > > Howdy, > > What are the differences between the targets mips64-elf and > mips-ecoff? I don't know what the elf and ecoff parts are for. But if I > compile for a 64bit architecture mips chip will that necessarily mean > that I should build a mips64-elf compiler? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Ricky Charlet : Redcreek Communications : usa (510) 795-6903 > > ------ > Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ > Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com Howdy, In further reading, I have found out that ecoff was an old (and from what I read unsucessful) attempt to develop a binary object encoding format which would apply to a large range of processors and become an open standard. elf format is more mips specific. Now I am makeing an infernece here, the rest of this is not something I've read. Because ecoff is quite old, and there seems to be no such mips64-ecoff target I assume that MIPS III & IV ISA (with the 64 bit modes) were defined only in mips elf formats. And therefore mips64-elf is the only target which will run a mips chip in 64 bit mode. -- Ricky Charlet : Redcreek Communications : usa (510) 795-6903 ------ Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com