From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernhard Fischer Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:02:02 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] ARM softfloat patch for gcc 4.2 In-Reply-To: <406186.89354.qm@web35612.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20061210141537.GD4442@aon.at> <406186.89354.qm@web35612.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20061212090202.GB5002@aon.at> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:32:53PM -0800, Andre wrote: >Bernhard Fischer wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 07:21:14PM -0800, Andre wrote: >> >Tested with gcc 4.2 20061205 snapshot + binutils 2.17 >> > >> >Seems to work with one minor issue: although the newly created >> >arm-linux-uclibc-gcc defaults to -mfloat-abi=soft, binutils does >> not. >> >> There are (at least) two upstream bugs about arm softfloat: >> gcc.gnu.org/PR16314 >> gcc.gnu.org/PR14352 >> >> Richard is the arm arch maintainer, so please discuss the problems >> there and also fix it there. thanks, >> > >Not quite sure I follow you... the issue with binutils seems likely >to be in binutils or in the way buildroot configures and builds >binutils, or not ?? > >The gcc bugs you reference seem to be unrelated... Did you read the PRs mentioned above? Especially the thread mentioned in PR16314, comment #1 ? If binutils defaults to not creating softfloat code in a toolchain that was ment to be softfloat-(only?), then that sounds like a glitch, yes. Does that work as expected with 2.17.50.0.8?