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From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Floating point usage
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:53:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080605205353.GA13515@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806052201.42032.plr.vincent@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:01:38PM +0200, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
> And there is an except to this except: If -lgcc is specified it will be used, 
> and it is for the following archs, as far as I can see:
>  - powerpc-ieee1275
>  - i386-linuxbios
>  - i386-ieee1275

Why would i386-linuxbios and i386-ieee1275 need libgcc but i386-pc don't?
IIRC the tendency is that CISC platforms tend not to need libgcc for floating
point but RISC ones do.  Did I make a mistake on these two ports?

-- 
Robert Millan

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-05 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-04 16:47 Floating point usage Pavel Roskin
2008-06-05 15:12 ` Jan Kleinsorge
2008-06-05 15:23   ` Stefan Reinauer
2008-06-05 17:12     ` Colin D Bennett
2008-06-05 20:01   ` Vincent Pelletier
2008-06-05 20:53     ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-06-05 21:22       ` Stefan Reinauer
2008-06-05 20:12 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen

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