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From:   Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:29:33PM -0400, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:

> I think that optimal for me would be if the tools from SGI worked for both
> hard-float and soft-float, and we didn't have any linux-vr-specific tools.

This is indeed the problem which I see with the softfp patch for libc.
Andreas Jaeger did work on the softfp stuff in glibc 2.2.  I don't know it's
exact status but if for size reasons you want to stick with glibc 2.0 a
backport might be of interest?

Have the other tools - in particular binutils and gcc actually been modified
except maybe changing defaults?

  Ralf