| To: | Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> |
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| Subject: | Re: Binutils fixed to deal with 'insmod' issue and discussion... |
| From: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> |
| Date: | Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:26:09 +0200 |
| Cc: | "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@cotw.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <20010403041740.G5099@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>; from ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:17:40AM +0200 |
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:17:40AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > >Without the binutils patch, all binaries compiled for MIPS/Linux > >will be IRIX flavored which was the whole problem. > > Please may You elaborate about this? AFAICS, the IRIX flavour > can't be a problem by itself. > Changing the MIPS/Linux ABI to circumvent a toolchain bug seems > to be a bit extremistic. Am I missing some important details? IRIX ELF orders the symbol table of object files in a way that violates the ABI. Worse, these IRIX specialities are not documented anywhere. Changing to ABI ELF only makes them look as they're supposed to ... Ralf |
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