Re: 4.1.3 PATCH: Fix configure error for IRIX 5/IRIX 6 O32

[Kevin Ryde]

Rainer Orth <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Investigating further with a compiler-generated variant revealed
> that for the O32 ABI (both on IRIX 5.3 and 6.5) the underscore_test
> function must not be empty.

Thanks.  Alas I think we only exercised o32 with gnu tools.

> To achieve this, I've added the final j $31
> instruction from the compiler-generated .s file.  This way, the test
> correctly detected that this platform needs no leading underscores.

Hmm.  Yes, I guess that will have to be the way.

> I noticed that irix[6789]
> wasn't quoted correctly in one place, yielding irix6789 without the angle
> brackets in configure.

Thanks, I guess the "mips64" part of the pattern was always hit.

(We have vague plans to recognise some exact cpus for mips one day,
rather than just a single mips64 for all.)

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