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 f3N4NHw04217 for linux-mips-outgoing; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:23:17 -0700 Received: from mail.foobazco.org (snowman.foobazco.org [198.144.194.230]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3N4NGM04214 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:23:16 -0700 Received: from galt.foobazco.org (galt.foobazco.org [198.144.194.227]) by mail.foobazco.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74673F1A9; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by galt.foobazco.org (Postfix, from userid 1014) id 02AFD1F42A; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:23:01 -0700 From: Keith M Wesolowski To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: "Steven J. Hill" , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Question on the binutils tradlittlemips patch Message-ID: <20010422212301.B6180@foobazco.org> References: <20010418141959.A24473@nevyn.them.org> <3ADDFD6A.AD0DDE4A@cotw.com> <20010418163727.A29531@nevyn.them.org> <20010422180718.A6180@foobazco.org> <20010422221953.A9097@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010422221953.A9097@nevyn.them.org>; from dan@debian.org on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:19:53PM -0400 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:19:53PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > I have them working in the case I care about - no backwards > compatibility at all. We (Monta Vista) can get away with this :) > I've attached the patches. This looks like what I have come up with as well. I don't care about backward compatibility either. If someone else wants to support broken crap that's their problem; in an age where we have scripts and makefiles to rebuild entire systems from source I can't see the point of binary compatibility. -- Keith M Wesolowski http://foobazco.org/~wesolows ------(( Project Foobazco Coordinator and Network Administrator ))------ "Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss put in an honest day's work." -- The fortune file