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Subject: Re: PATCH: Modify the mips gas behavior for -g -O
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> In general the reason for this sort of compatibility is for easier gcc
> support.  It's normally more convenient if the GNU assembler and the
> native assembler present the same interface, so that you don't have to
> use --with-gnu-assembler to get the right result when configuring gcc.
> 

Ok. That's fair enough. I was hoping you'd pipe up here. :)

-eric

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