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RFA: MIPS/dwarf-2: gas patches

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Mon Jun 10 10:32:00 GMT 2002 
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:21:25AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:16:43PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
>  > I believe some *BSD people use it for a boot format, but they don't
>  > compile directly to it.
> 
> Right, there are plenty of systems out there (ARC systems, DECstations,
> etc.) who's firmware can only load ECOFF images.
> 
> (...and before anyone says "aw, who cares about those?", a 5000/260 with
> 192MB of RAM is still a pretty nice machine, even by today's standards :-)

But do any of these systems ever need Third-Eye (mdebug) debug
information?  My guess is "not any more".

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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