On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:16, James E Wilson wrote:
> 
> Is there a reason why you are asking?  Since target flag macros are
> target dependent, there is no particular need for them to be consistent
> across different targets.

I was checking to see exactly what differences configuring a current
mips-elf toolchain with and without --with-gnu-as makes, and that led
me to the MASK_GNU_AS and MASK_GAS issue.  Your first instinct is to
think that they are somehow different, and I guess I was a little
surprised to find out that they weren't.

> At the same time, I'm not asking anyone else to
> change, since others may not want to change their ports, so we are left
> with a minor harmless inconsistency.

Yes it's a small nit.

-Fred

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