From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261288AbTDQIx1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2003 04:53:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261290AbTDQIx1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2003 04:53:27 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:48151 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261288AbTDQIx0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2003 04:53:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:04:44 +0000 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Roman Zippel Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , LKML Subject: Re: [BK+PATCH] remove __constant_memcpy Message-ID: <20030417090444.A4209@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <1050569207.1412.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from zippel@linux-m68k.org on Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 11:02:43AM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 11:02:43AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On 17 Apr 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > it can do that ANYWAY for all kinds of things. > > We really should ask the gcc folks to add a > > -fdontyoudareusefloatingpoint flag (well different name probably) to > > make sure it never ever will generate FP code. (would also help catch > > abusers of FP code in the kernel as a bonus ;) > > -msoft-float? that is a decent start but has a different effect, eg it doesnt' actually forbid gcc from generatic fpu code, just tells it to use emu lib functions for it .