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Re: Possible bug in egcs-19990517 with IRIX/mips4.


---Jeffrey A Law <law@upchuck.cygnus.com> wrote:
>
> 
>   > Another thing that strikes me is, that obviously on my box
>   > specifying -mips3 also activates -mlong64
> Yes.
> 
> 
>   > (Is this a feature or a bug ?)
> It is correct behavior -mips3 and -mips4 will turn on -mlong64.
> 

 Hmm. I do not think this is a good decision. There are
Systems like the O2 (R10K and R5K) and the Indy (R5K), which
are mips4 capable, but run IRIX6.5 in 32-bit mode.

 Also, all R4400 based desktop machines can do mips3 (it is
the default in IRIX6.5), but run IRIX in 32-bit mode.

 Making 64-bit the default for mips3/mips4 limits the useability
to the systems running IRIX64.

Martin
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