This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: RFC: Requiring GAS for mips-sgi-irix*
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, david dot billinghurst at comalco dot riotinto dot com dot au, ro at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de, ghazi at infinite dot rutgers dot edu
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:06:19 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC: Requiring GAS for mips-sgi-irix*
- References: <87isdg7y2q.fsf@redhat.com>
>
> I think there are several alternatives:
>
> (1) what we have now: support both the MIPSpro assembler & MIPSpro linker
> (2) require GAS for o32, otherwise continue with what we have now
> (3) require GAS for all ABIs, but continue to support the MIPSpro linker
> (4) require binutils across the board
>
> I'm not ready to promote (4) yet since the overhead of supporting the
> linker is much smaller than the overhead of supporting the assembler.
> I'm not saying it's a bad idea either, mind. ;)
I'm up for 3 or 4. Anything that gets the irix assembler specific code
bugs out of gcc would be nice. :)
But you knew my opinion already :)
-eric
--
Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>