From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K4MTR-0004J5-7n for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:54:17 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4MTQ-0004Is-4x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:54:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4MTO-0004IR-JT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:54:15 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53398 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4MTO-0004IM-DG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:54:14 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:54090) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4MTO-0001lU-0f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:54:14 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K4MSD-0004C5-I6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:53:02 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K4MT3-0003YN-E1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:53:53 +0200 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:53:53 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080605205353.GA13515@thorin> References: <1212598032.15804.9.camel@dv> <4848025A.9010302@gmx.de> <200806052201.42032.plr.vincent@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200806052201.42032.plr.vincent@gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Floating point usage X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:54:16 -0000 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 I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)