RFC & patch: Rework MIPS command-line handling

[Thiemo Seufer]

Eric Christopher wrote:
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> > > 3. Add eabi32, eabi64, meabi32 and meabi64 to -mabi.  You get
> > >    the 32-bit version unless you use -mabi=eabi64.
> > 
> > I would prefer the third option. At least it makes explicit
> > what's going on and does not interfere with other ABIs.
> 
> It _does_ make it explicit, however, there aren't really two different
> ABIs...

Err, different register sizes make the binary interfaces incompatible.
If this is the same ABI nevertheless, what ABIs would you call
different then?


Thiemo