[vishnu]

I know I've said this a million times, but I think it bears repeating. My understanding is that the folks at MIPS have assigned some of their compiler programmers to assist the gcc programmers to help generate better MIPS code. But my guess would be that they're ignoring the 64-bit R-series processors we have in our SGIs, which is sad. But who knows, maybe there is an overlap between our processors and the set-top processor that MIPS has been focusing on for the last 20 years.