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- If you use the 1.31 version of the MIPS assembler (such as was shipped
- with Ultrix 3.1), you will need to use the -fno-delayed-branch switch
- when optimizing floating point code. Otherwise, the assembler will
- complain when the GCC compiler fills a branch delay slot with a
- floating point instruction, such as add.d.
-
- The GCC compiler on the MIPS will put small strings into the short
- data area, rather than the read-only data section. This is so that
- references to the strings only take one instruction, instead of the
- normal two instructions.
-
- Users have reported some problems with version 2.0 of the MIPS
- compiler tools (Ultrix 4.1). Version 2.10 seems to work (Ultrix 4.2).
-