Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.ORG> writes:
> I was more interested in the previous paragraph:
> 
>  * 64-bit extensions: many MIPS CPUs are 64-bit machines which are 32-bit compatible.
>    64-bit pointers are rarely useful outside big Unix sytems, but using 64-bit data can
>    be worthwhile. SDE-MIPS generates 64-bit instructions for ``long long'' data, while
>    keeping a valuable degree of compatibility with the 32-bit calling convention.
> 
> I thought we'd looked at this before in the past on the pmax before we
> split off the mips stuff into a separate directory, but can't remember
> why we didn't do anything...

Right, so, if this support is in their version of gcc, and isn't in
the current development gcc, then we should either:

	(1) convince them to donate it back, or

	(2) rewrite it.

we shouldn't pick up code from somebody "random" that'll keep us
maintaining our own divergent toolchain forever.



cgd