Technical Information

Frequently Asked Questions on porting to the MIPS ABI

The MIPS ABI Processor Conformance Guide Version 1.1.2
Search in Black Book 1.1

The MIPS ABI Processor Conformance Guide Version 1.2
Search in Black Book 1.2
This is not yet supported on any platform, but is available to show the ABI roadmap.
You can also download a postscript version.

The MIPS ABI Support Guide

MIPS ABI Support of C++

UniSoft Application Binary Checker

This package contains tools that will help in determining whether an application contains routines and data elements that are not MIPS ABI compliant.

Patches required to IRIX 5.3 for ABI compliance

The following patches to IRIX 5.3 are required to create the current Reference Platform:

Patch 183 Patch 1068 Patch 448 Patch 541 Patch 595 Patch 596 Patch 604
The full set of patches in one archive

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