On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 13:49:25 -0400 (EDT) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

 > It actually keeps configuration more uniform.  Paricularly if you can match
 > on "mips*" when endianness is not an issue (which is done in autoconf now, I
 > believe).

Correct.

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