Package: gcc-defaults Version: 1.102 Severity: wishlist Now that gcc-4.5 seems to be in a good shape, I think it's time to make it the default on mips and mipsel. Note that it introduces a few changes: - The default ABI in gcc-4.5 is MIPS II instead of MIPS I. It means that it's not necessary anymore to use '.set mips2' pseudo ops in assembly code to get access to the atomic instructions (ll, sc, lld, scd). gcc-4.5 also doesn't emit any more delay slot after load/store instructions, which slightly reduce the size of the generated binaries. The drawback is that MIPS3000 CPUs are not supported anymore. It should not be a big deal, especially given we don't provide kernels for these CPUs for years. - gcc-4.5 enables PLT and copy relocation extensions of MIPS ABI by default (-mplt), which produces faster binaries.
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