Calling a MIPS maintainer (was Re: GCC build failed for mips-elf with your patch on 2002-06-18T19:37:45Z.)

[Eric Christopher]

> > 
> > So, MIPS maintainers:  I can just override the default and force the generic
> > CPU settings for MIPS; this goes back to the way we were yesterday, but
> > note that the generic CPU atomicity routines aren't actually atomic, i.e.,
> > generic == not actually working.  The other choice is:  the file presently
> > in the MIPS directory can be fixed by one of you.  :-)  What should I do?
> 
> FWIW, I'd recommend forcing the use of ll/sc (via .set push/.set
> mips2/.set pop).  I don't know how various embedded MIPS-I systems will
> like that, though...
> 

Not likely at all.

The best bet would be to make a test for it. Perhaps a custom configure
bit to test whether it's a mips that supports the ll/sc instructions. If
it assembles, it'll work.

-eric

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