why remove -mrnames option

Jim Wilson wilson@tuliptree.org
Fri Apr 18 20:00:00 GMT 2008


Eric Fisher wrote:
> anyone can tell me, why should we remove -mrnames option?

Presumably you mean the MIPS port -mrnames option.  It was removed here
     http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-07/msg01314.html

The option wasn't very useful, since it emitted assembly code that only 
one known assembler could handle, and didn't provide any clear benefit.

Jim



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