From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f33I1Jc12488 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:01:19 -0700 Received: from dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (u-231-18.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de [62.180.18.231]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f33I1EM12482 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:01:14 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f338Q9o30734; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:26:09 +0200 Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:26:09 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Thiemo Seufer Cc: "Steven J. Hill" , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Binutils fixed to deal with 'insmod' issue and discussion... Message-ID: <20010403102608.A30531@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <00a901c0bb6f$d3e77820$0deca8c0@Ulysses> <3AC90E16.AEF59359@cotw.com> <20010403041740.G5099@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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