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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:04:35 -0400
From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@freebsd.org>
Cc: Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 19167 for review
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Apparently, On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 03:11:43PM -0700,
	Juli Mallett said words to the effect of;

> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=19167
> 
> Change 19167 by jmallett@jmallett_thefather on 2002/10/12 15:11:00
> 
> 	Clean up some XXXMIPS comments.
> 
> Affected files ...
> 
> .. //depot/projects/mips/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/Makefile.mips#4 edit
> .. //depot/projects/mips/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbfd/Makefile.mips#5 edit
> 
> Differences ...
> 
> ==== //depot/projects/mips/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/Makefile.mips#4 (text+ko) ====
> 
> @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
>  # $FreeBSD: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/Makefile.powerpc,v 1.11 2002/05/17 03:10:33 obrien Exp $
>  
> -# XXXMIPS We only support SGI stuff now.
>  TARGET_TUPLE?=	mips-unknown-freebsd
>  
>  # XXXMIPS I guess FreeBSD will default to bemips?
> 
> ==== //depot/projects/mips/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbfd/Makefile.mips#5 (text+ko) ====
> 
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
>  # $FreeBSD: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbfd/Makefile.sparc64,v 1.5 2001/10/14 00:58:59 obrien Exp $
>  
> -# XXXMIPS COFF?  IRIX_CORE?
> +# XXXMIPS We want COFF at some point, to produce stuff for machines
> +# such as some early SGI ones which need COFF images to boot...
>  SRCS+=	aout32.c	\
>  	coff-mips.c	\
>  	cpu-mips.c	\

Its often easier to just write a program that converts a binary from
elf to <insert wierd format>.  We do this for sparc64 where the prom
wants an a.out binary (elf2aout), and I'm pretty sure for alpha which
might actually use COFF (elf2exe).

Jake

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