Subject: Re: MACHINE_ARCH vs. OBJ_ARCH
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mips
Date: 07/26/1998 13:15:33
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998 18:23:09 +0200
Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:
> While I have your attention, a couple of more random questions:
>
> o I assume the output of "uname -m" on NetBSD will be "mips" for
> all machines with a MIPS processor, irrespective of its
> endianness or wheter it's a MIPS1 or MIPS3?
This is the issue here, and I believe that both "mips" and OBJ_ARCH are
_wrong_.
Can someone just make the change to make them "mipsel" and "mipseb" and
be done with it? Otherwise, I'll just do it myself.
Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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