> Do you know whether anyone uses the GNU assembler on this platform,
> or is it always SGI's? I'm wondering if we need two versions of the
> assembly code ...
Sure. Both compilers are available, with SGI's, uh, unique approach, and
with GNU's well understood assembler.
> I had missed the fact that s_lock.c contains some MIPS code. Anyone
> have any idea what versions of the MIPS series this code runs on?
There is a chance it is from the Ultrix days (very pre-1998 afaicr). Or
is it the *only* MIPS code in our tree? If so, then it probably supports
Tatsuo's dead Cobalt server box, which is fairly recent vintage.
- Thomas