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On Fri, 8 Apr 2022, Richard Sandiford wrote:

> >  Richard, would you by any chance know/remember what IRIX/MIPSpro did 
> > here?
> 
> No, sorry.  I remember there were some cases where we had to choose
> between compatibility with MIPSpro and backwards compatibility with
> GCC (which did something different and thus presumably “wrong”).
> Since GCC de facto the ABI for GNU systems, it wasn't always an
> easy choice.  But that might not overlap with this case.

 OK, thanks for your consideration.  I'll try to find some time to get 
back to these issues once Stage 1 has opened and then people can discuss 
actual code changes proposed and see what to do here.

  Maciej