Re: Please reenable GCJ on mips

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 05:16:28AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I begin to get the picture.
> 
> Apparently the MIPS ABI is just plain broken.  It contains some sort of 
> impassable hard limit on relocation table size, breaking random packages at 
> random times with no possible fix.  Nobody can fix this without changing 
> the ABI.
> 
> Lovely.  Good grief, I would not want to support this architecture under 
> those circumstances, but as long as it doesn't interfere with supporting 
> other architectures, if you think you can do it, that's fine.

You don't get the picture.  In fact the above is completely wrong.  I
recall explaining this to you yesterday.

It's a lot of work to fix and no one has done it.  That's not the same
thing at all.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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