4 - MIPS32 and MIPS64 platforms are currently supported.
5 - Both little-endian and big-endian cores are supported.
6 - MIPS DSP ASE on MIPS32 platforms is supported.
11 - Native build is available for all supported platforms. The build system
12 expects that native GCC is configured correctly and optimized for the platform.
13 Yet, this may not be the case with some Debian distributions which configure
14 GCC to compile to "mips1" by default. Depending on a target platform, using
15 CFLAGS="-mips32r2", CFLAGS="-mips32" or CFLAGS="-mips64" or
16 CFLAGS="-mips64 -mabi=64" will do the trick and compile Valgrind correctly.
18 - Use of cross-toolchain is supported as well.
19 - Example of configure line and additional configure options:
21 $ ./configure --host=mipsel-linux-gnu --prefix=<path_to_install_directory>
23 * --host=mips-linux-gnu is necessary only if Valgrind is built on platform
24 other then MIPS, tools for building MIPS application have to be in PATH.
26 * --host=mips-linux-gnu is necessary if you compile it with cross toolchain
27 compiler for big endian platform.
29 * --host=mipsel-linux-gnu is necessary if you compile it with cross toolchain
30 compiler for little endian platform.
32 * --build=mips-linux is needed if you want to build it for MIPS32 on 64-bit
35 * If you are compiling Valgrind for mips32 with gcc version older then
36 gcc (GCC) 4.5.1, you must specify CFLAGS="-mips32r2 -mplt", e.g.
38 ./configure --prefix=<path_to_install_directory>
39 CFLAGS="-mips32r2 -mplt"
44 - Some gdb tests will fail when gdb (GDB) older than 7.5 is used and gdb is
45 not compiled with '--with-expat=yes'.
46 - You can not compile tests for DSP ASE if you are using gcc (GCC) older
47 then 4.6.1 due to a bug in the toolchain.
48 - Older GCC may have issues with some inline assembly blocks. Get a toolchain
49 based on newer GCC versions, if possible.
50 - Systems with a mips64 cpu having only o32 libraries will misconfigure in case
51 no appropriate architecture flag is specified during configure time.
52 Be sure to set either mips32 or mips32r2 as the target architecture in that