[fpc-devel] about mips/mipsel chaos

[Fuxin Zhang]

>
> On 08 Jun 2012, at 17:57, Fuxin Zhang wrote:
>
>>  Since mipsel/mips has most of the code equal(code is endian free or use
>> endian setting in target_info), I would like to propose make such
>> conventions:
>>
>>   define mips, cpumips, mips32 for use of common mips related code
>>   define mipsel/mipsel32 for little endian cpus
>>   define mipseb/mipseb32 for big endian cpus
>
> Ok, except that all of those defines have to start with "cpu". The
> compiler always only defines cpu*: cpui386, cpux86, cpupowerpc,
> cpupowerpc32, cpupowerpc64, ...
>
> The non-cpu defines are only defined by the Makefiles while compiling the
> RTL and compiler (although in an ideal world, they would only be defined
> while compiling the compiler, because they are superfluous while compiling
> the RTL).
Please review http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/foxsen/mips:
  r21554:21557
log:
Make macro CPUMIPS common for big endian and little endian mips processors
use CPUMIPSEL* for little endian systems
use CPUMIPSEB* for big endian systems

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> Jonas