Re: [COMMITTED PATCH v2] gdb: mips: Fix the handling of complex type of function return value

Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-04-11T15:38:03Z

On Fri, 8 Apr 2022, Richard Sandiford wrote:

> > Richard, would you by any chance know/remember what IRIX/MIPSpro did
> > here?
>
> No, sorry. I remember there were some cases where we had to choose
> between compatibility with MIPSpro and backwards compatibility with
> GCC (which did something different and thus presumably “wrong”).
> Since GCC de facto the ABI for GNU systems, it wasn't always an
> easy choice. But that might not overlap with this case.

OK, thanks for your consideration. I'll try to find some time to get
back to these issues once Stage 1 has opened and then people can discuss
actual code changes proposed and see what to do here.

Maciej