Re: target removal...

[Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>]

Robert Dewar writes:

> > Indeed: please keep irix5.  I'm currently working to resurrect my patches
> > to support the O32 ABI on IRIX 6 (which is identical to the IRIX 5
> > configuration).  Results are good so far; I'll post an initial patch
> > shortly.
> 
> Note that the SGI compilers fully support -o32 on IRIX6 using the
> -o32 switch. It is really wrong to use IRIX5/IRIX6 to mean o32/n32
> (and then there is after all n64 as well, the third ABI supported
> on IRIX6).

I'm fully aware of this: my ultimate plan is to revive and complete old
patches of mine to add O32 ABI support to the common mips-sgi-irix6
configuration:

	http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1999-02n/msg00015.html

But before, I'm working on a preliminary IRIX 6/O32 (mips-sgi-irix6*o32)
configuration that is basically identical to mips-sgi-irix5, with a couple
of changes added to make the latter work on IRIX 6, to get a baseline to
test the fully integrated O32 support against.

This configuration has the added advantage that it doesn't affect irix6
right now.

	Rainer