[Bug target/45345] In function `mips16_build_function_stub' undefined reference to `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF'

[Bug target/45345] In function `mips16_build_function_stub' undefined reference to `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF'

[rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45345

rsandifo@gcc.gnu.org <rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |amylaar at gcc dot gnu.org

--- Comment #2 from rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org <rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-05-23 18:38:26 UTC ---
*** Bug 47110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Bug target/45345] In function `mips16_build_function_stub' undefined reference to `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF'

[rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45345

rsandifo@gcc.gnu.org <rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org

--- Comment #3 from rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org <rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-05-28 08:11:18 UTC ---
Since the port has gone unmaintained for several years,
and hasn't been buildable for such a long time, it's now
slated for deprecation in 4.7 and removal in 4.8:

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-05/msg00262.html

[Bug target/45345] In function `mips16_build_function_stub' undefined reference to `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF'

[jay.krell at cornell dot edu]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45345

--- Comment #4 from Jay <jay.krell at cornell dot edu> 2011-05-28 19:20:51 UTC ---
No -- this is mips64. OpenBSD uses it -- loongson.

[Bug target/45345] In function `mips16_build_function_stub' undefined reference to `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF'

[rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45345

--- Comment #5 from rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org <rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-05-28 19:38:10 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> No -- this is mips64. OpenBSD uses it -- loongson.

Sorry, what are you saying "no" to?  To be clear,
by "the port", I meant mips*-*-openbsd*.  There's
no separate mips64*-*-openbsd* configuration.

[Bug target/45345] In function `mips16_build_function_stub' undefined reference to `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF'

[jay.krell at cornell dot edu]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45345

--- Comment #6 from Jay <jay.krell at cornell dot edu> 2011-05-28 19:47:42 UTC ---
No -- as in this, this isn't unused, ought not be deprecated.
You mentioned 32bit mips/a.out -- sure, maybe that is unused.
  I assume a.out is almost unused across the board.
But 64bit mips/elf is used.

Now, granted, OpenBSD I believe is sticking back with gcc 4.2?3/GPL2 so
probably doesn't care what you do with 4.5.

But surely Linux is using mips64/elf and probably also mips32/elf?
(and Irix, if it is still supported)
There is pretty recent hardware development here, you know, Loongson.

I must have been referring to the email thread or the duplicate mail.

[Bug target/45345] In function `mips16_build_function_stub' undefined reference to `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF'

[rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45345

--- Comment #7 from rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org <rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-05-28 21:16:17 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> No -- as in this, this isn't unused, ought not be deprecated.
> You mentioned 32bit mips/a.out -- sure, maybe that is unused.
>   I assume a.out is almost unused across the board.
> But 64bit mips/elf is used.
> 
> Now, granted, OpenBSD I believe is sticking back with gcc 4.2?3/GPL2 so
> probably doesn't care what you do with 4.5.

Well, this isn't about 4.5, it's about 4.7.  And the idea
is that 4.7 will still accept mips*-*-openbsd* when configured
with --enable-obselete.  (Although that's only a technicality
given that the port doesn't build.)

But if OpenBSD are sticking with 4.2, someone else needs to
do the work to fix it for mainline, and to be prepared to
continue to care for it going forward.  There's no point
keeping a port that doesn't build for year after year.

> But surely Linux is using mips64/elf and probably also mips32/elf?
> (and Irix, if it is still supported)

Sure, but they do all the things that an ELF port should do.
As you note in comment #2, OpenBSD doesn't.  This is not about
deprecating MIPS on ELF.

> There is pretty recent hardware development here, you know, Loongson.

Again, I'm not sure what you mean.  What bearing does Loongson
have on the OpenBSD port?

Loongson as an _architecture_ is of course supported, and people
are happily using on GNU/Linux.  But as with all these things
the reason that Loongson is a supported architecture is that
people have been prepared to submit patches for it and fix bugs.

Richard

[Bug target/45345] In function `mips16_build_function_stub' undefined reference to `ASM_OUTPUT_DEF'

[amylaar at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45345

Jorn Wolfgang Rennecke <amylaar at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #8 from Jorn Wolfgang Rennecke <amylaar at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-09-21 16:18:59 UTC ---
mips*-*-openbsd* support has been removed 2012-03-12.