From: Mark Hatle <fray@mvista.com>
To: Ralph Blach <rcblach@raleigh.ibm.com>
Cc: Grant Erickson <erick205@umn.edu>, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Patch for Soft-Float Problems w/ Glibc & Gcc?
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:42:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A898030.820F2B3D@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A897356.3DAB1D3@raleigh.ibm.com
Ralph Blach wrote:
>
> Grant,
>
> As I understand it, Softfloat does NOT produce software emulation.
> One must have a library to which to link inorder to floating point in
> this situation.
>
> The MontaVista toolset seems to have the floating point emulation in it.
Actually thats only partially true.. the floating point "library" is
internal to gcc on PowerPC processors.. and on all of the processors
that MontaVista supports.
gcc/config/fp-bit.c is the file included with gcc to support
soft-floating point.
--Mark
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-13 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-13 17:20 Patch for Soft-Float Problems w/ Glibc & Gcc? Grant Erickson
2001-02-13 17:48 ` Ralph Blach
2001-02-13 18:42 ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2001-02-13 17:54 ` Mark Hatle
2001-02-14 0:09 ` Timothy Pollock
2001-02-14 0:29 ` Grant Erickson
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