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| In article <1993Aug26.185046.8210@vlsi.polymtl.ca> perrot@GRBB.polymtl.CA (Gildas PERROT) writes:
| >I am trying to install it on an Indigo R4000 (IRIX 4.0.5) 
| >and I would like to know what is the parameters to give to 
| >the "configure" script.
| I used one of
| mips-sgi-irix4
| or
| mips-sgi-iris4
| (I don't remember which; the right one is in a "case" within the
| configure command.)
| with no other changes.  If the configure is right, there will be some
| -WN paramters to set cc table sizes, which are needed.
| 
| gcc doesn't know about the R4000 as of 2.4.5, as far as I know; if you
| want mips2 code you need to use sgi's compiler with that flag.

Actually, GCC knows about the MIPS-II instructions, available with the
-mips2 switch.  It is the MIPS-III instructions (ie, 64 bit) that it
doesn't know about.
 
| There is one header file that needs an optional part of the development
| CD installed to make gcc; I don't remember what it (either the header or
| the name for the component to install) is.

Quoting from the fine manual:

    `mips-sgi-*'
          Silicon Graphics MIPS machines running IRIX.  In order to
          compile GCC on an SGI the "c.hdr.lib" option must be
          installed from the CD-ROM supplied from Silicon Graphics.
          This is found on the 2nd CD in release 4.0.1.

Also of note:

	   On Irix version 4.0.5F, and perhaps on some other versions as well,
	there is an assembler bug that reorders instructions incorrectly.  To
	work around it, specify the target configuration `mips-sgi-irix4loser'.
	This configuration inhibits assembler optimization.

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