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

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, the general rule is to use EM_MIPS == 8 for MIPS with both
endiannesses and ignore EM_MIPS_*. So removing the other defines
from the linux include file seems to be the sensible thing to do.
(Binutils can't do the same due to backward compatibility concerns.)


Thiemo