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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com>,
	mad-dev@lists.mars.org, Carlo Agostini <carlo.agostini@yacme.com>,
	linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Problems compiling . soft-float
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:10:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020226001016.A3303@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020226060236.A5293@dea.linux-mips.net>

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:02:37AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:47:44PM -0500, Jay Carlson wrote:
> 
> > Ralf is right that the kernel emulator is the supported route.  But if 
> > you're willing to go to the trouble of building everything from scratch, 
> > this does work.
> 
> It's really a major pain.  Softfp isn't defined in the ABI which assumes
> an FPU is available.  As the result there is no provision for mixing
> softfp and fp-less code.
> 
> Something for the binutils to-do list - ld should make mixing hard-fp
> and soft-fp binaries impossible.

Or we could see if it is possible to define the ABIs in such a way that
they can call each other... I don't immediately see a problem.  The
only code that will clobber FP registers is FP code.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-26  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-25  7:19 Problems compiling . soft-float Carlo Agostini
2002-02-25 12:25 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-26  4:47   ` Jay Carlson
2002-02-26  5:02     ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-26  5:10       ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-02-26  5:23         ` Jay Carlson
2002-02-26  5:28       ` Jay Carlson
2002-02-26  5:51         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-26 12:59           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-02-26 12:59             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-02-26 10:55       ` Dominic Sweetman
2002-02-26 12:27         ` Ralf Baechle

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