Re: [PATCH] configure: Check whether we can compile the s390-ccw bios with -msoft-float

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 25 2021, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:

> The -msoft-float switch is not available in older versions of Clang.
> Since we rely on the compiler to not generate floating point instructions
> unexpectedly, we block those old compilers now via a test in the configure
> script. Note that for some weird reasons, the Clang compiler only complains
> about the missing soft-float support if no other flags are passed via
> "-Wl,..." to the linker. So we have to use "compile_object" instead of
> "compile_prog" for this check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  configure | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks, applied.