Re: patches for mips-linux

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <19980624003019.A19611@dot.cygnus.com>you write:
  > I have had some success reports from a mips-linux guinea pig,
  > but I'd like Jim to comment on the bits that affect mips-elf
  > (in that why was mips relying on collect2/gld rather than
  > using a .ctors section like everyone else) and Ralf to double
  > check that I've not left out anything.
I think this little tidbit is historical -- the mips-elf ports inherited
some braindamage from irix.

Interestingly enough Jason Merrill and I have been discussing ways to
fix this problem.  It looks like these patches take a step in that
direction.  I'm willing jump in after they're installed and try to
make the mips-elf cross targets work.

  > And while I once had a GNU account, it seems to have been
  > deactivated, so someone should double check that Ralf's
  > paperwork is proper.
I saw nothing for Ralf on file.  These are significant enough that we
would need a copyright assignment and possibly a disclaimer from
Ralf's employer.

A note -- instead of checking TARGET_LONG64 to find out the size of
a pointer, look at Pmode's or POINTER_SIZE instead.

jeff