From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:43:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from phoenix.bawue.net ([193.7.176.60]:32943 "EHLO mail.bawue.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20038987AbWLEMna (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:43:30 +0000 Received: from lagash (intrt.mips-uk.com [194.74.144.130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bawue.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2AE1B908A; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:45:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrZeO-0001sx-1q; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:43:56 +0000 Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:43:56 +0000 To: "Fu, He Wei PSE NKG" Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: The difference between mips*-gnu and mips*-linux when configure tool-chain Message-ID: <20061205124355.GB26046@networkno.de> References: <20061203170514.GA11258@nevyn.them.org> <96E7D5519FC3D741BEE27AB88C7387970167840A@PEKW934A.cn001.siemens.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <96E7D5519FC3D741BEE27AB88C7387970167840A@PEKW934A.cn001.siemens.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Thiemo Seufer Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 13343 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ths@networkno.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Fu, He Wei PSE NKG wrote: > Thanks, sorry for I missed the mips*-elf for mips*-gnu. > > I think that for ld,the difference between mips*-elf and mips*-linux > produces only some minor impact on the default ld script, for the > behavior of ld itself, it has not serious impact.Is it my understanding > correct? > > But for bfd, does the difference of these two config-choice have impact > on the behavior of two different bfd-target? . For both cases the resulting object file layout is different. mips*-elf uses SGI-style, mips*-linux uses "traditional" style. I expect the "traditional" format to get better long-term maintenance. For a stand-alone bootloader both do for now, but I would prefer mips*-linux since it eliminates the need for one extra compiler when building a Linux environment. Thiemo