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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Cc: "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@cotw.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Binutils fixed to deal with 'insmod' issue and discussion...
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:26:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010403102608.A30531@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
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

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

  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-03 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-02 12:24 Dumb Question on Cross-Development Kevin D. Kissell
2001-04-02 12:24 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-04-02 13:14 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-04-02 13:14   ` Ralf Baechle
2001-04-02 19:20   ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-04-02 19:20     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-04-02 21:48     ` Florian Lohoff
2001-04-02 22:22       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-04-02 22:22         ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-04-02 22:30         ` Florian Lohoff
2001-04-03  2:57           ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-04-04 15:17             ` Jay Carlson
2001-04-04 15:17               ` Jay Carlson
2001-04-03  6:11           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-04-03  9:52             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-03  9:50           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-03 17:34           ` Jun Sun
2001-04-04 10:02             ` Florian Lohoff
2001-04-04 10:15               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-04-04 11:02                 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-04-04 12:15                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-04 11:22               ` Alan Cox
2001-04-04 11:22                 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-04 16:05                 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-04-04 18:06               ` Jun Sun
2001-04-04 18:45                 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-04-06  9:37           ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-04-03  9:26       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-03 15:10         ` Ralf Baechle
2001-04-04 12:06           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-04 12:29             ` Ralf Baechle
2001-04-04 13:39               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-04 14:23                 ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-04-04 15:37                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-05 10:54                     ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-04-05 12:05                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-05 14:35                         ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-04-05 16:50                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-05 12:32                       ` Ralf Baechle
2001-04-06 15:30                         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-07 15:29                 ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-04-09 12:16                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-02 21:56     ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-04-02 23:41 ` Binutils fixed to deal with 'insmod' issue and discussion Steven J. Hill
2001-04-03  2:17   ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-04-03  8:26     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-04-03 17:27       ` Steven J. Hill
2001-04-04  5:57         ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-04-04 16:12       ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-04-03 15:46     ` Steven J. Hill
2001-04-03 16:59   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-03 16:56     ` Steven J. Hill
2001-04-04 11:35       ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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