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