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* why remove -mrnames option
@ 2008-04-18  7:12 Eric Fisher
  2008-04-18 20:00 ` Jim Wilson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eric Fisher @ 2008-04-18  7:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gcc-help

anyone can tell me, why should we remove -mrnames option?

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* Re: why remove -mrnames option
  2008-04-18  7:12 why remove -mrnames option Eric Fisher
@ 2008-04-18 20:00 ` Jim Wilson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jim Wilson @ 2008-04-18 20:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Fisher; +Cc: gcc-help

Eric Fisher wrote:
> anyone can tell me, why should we remove -mrnames option?

Presumably you mean the MIPS port -mrnames option.  It was removed here
     http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-07/msg01314.html

The option wasn't very useful, since it emitted assembly code that only 
one known assembler could handle, and didn't provide any clear benefit.

Jim

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