RFC: Requiring GAS for mips-sgi-irix*

[Eric Christopher]

> 
> I think there are several alternatives:
> 
>   (1) what we have now: support both the MIPSpro assembler & MIPSpro linker
>   (2) require GAS for o32, otherwise continue with what we have now
>   (3) require GAS for all ABIs, but continue to support the MIPSpro linker
>   (4) require binutils across the board
> 
> I'm not ready to promote (4) yet since the overhead of supporting the
> linker is much smaller than the overhead of supporting the assembler.
> I'm not saying it's a bad idea either, mind. ;)

I'm up for 3 or 4. Anything that gets the irix assembler specific code
bugs out of gcc would be nice. :)

But you knew my opinion already :)

-eric

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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>