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Use `--with-gnu-as' when configuring MIPS

If you rebuild the entire Developer's Kit from source, the top-level configuration files handle the following configuration detail for you automatically.

But if you rebuild the compiler alone for a MIPS target, we highly recommend that you specify `--with-gnu-as' on the command line for configure. This avoides an incompatibility between the GNU assembler and the MIPS assembler. The MIPS assembler does not support debugging directives, and GCC uses a special program, mips-tfile, to generate them. GNU AS parses the debugging directives directly, and does not require mips-tfile.

You should also specify `--with-stabs' on the command line to configure. This provides better debugging symbols, in particular for C++.

If you plan to use GNU LD, be sure to specify `--with-gnu-ld' when you rebuild on any platform for which the linker is available.


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