From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Conn Clark Cc: May Ling List Subject: Re: MPC8xx fpu support and compiling glib. From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:11:00 PDT." <3CB71524.46DC9F87@esteem.com> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:47:18 +0200 Message-Id: <20020412194723.7EACA11258@denx.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <3CB71524.46DC9F87@esteem.com> you wrote: > > > You cannot mix FPU-code and soft-float in one application/library > > setup. ... > If my kernel has fpu-emulation, do I need to compile soft-float into my > glibc? You can compile either ALL libraries and ALL applications with, or ALL without FP. > Does putting fpu-emulation in the kernel and not using soft-float in > glibc > save me RAM? Not any significant amount, I think. Also be awre the the emulation code in the kernel is far from complete or perfect. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/