Re: Diff between Linus' and linux-mips git: elf.h

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:47:40PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> Arguably, whatever's used by binutils should be the tie-breaker.
> Googling around, I see that the EM_MIPS_RS3_LE value was
> added in the October 4, 1999 draft of the ELF spec, but inexplicably
> the alias with EM_MIPS_RS4_BE was left in place - perhaps they
> were supposed to be disambiguated by some 32-vs-64-bit flag
> somewhere.  A random sampling of ELF documents on the web
> shows the vast majority calling out RS3_LE and not RS4_BE.

No way to actually resolve this one; not even binutils oldtimer
Ian Lance Taylor can remember the reasons for the change anymore.

  Ralf