Re: Soft-float compiler for ARM

[Robert Schwebel <robert at schwebel dot de>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:31:13PM -0500, senthil wrote:
> Hi,
> you will have to use something like this,  
> arm-linux-gcc -static -L./ -msoft-float -Xlinker --no-warn-mismatch 
> hello.c, you can also use -lfloat option if needed (use netwinder 
> libfloat or nico's libfloat)
> 
> --no-warn-mismatch will allow you to continue linking
> but sometimes I have noticed gcc putting hard-float instructions aswell 
> as definitions from softfloat (I used nicolas pitre's soft-float glibc 
> replacement ) if  the arguments were passed in
> a different order, but this one works fine for me. I am using gcc3.2.1.

This looks like a hack to me; I don't really want to change anything in
the compiler call as it works quite fine with gcc-2.95.3 and just
ommitting the warning smells like a hack - the real problem seems to be
that libgcc only has (or at least claims to have) hard fp support
compiled in. 

Robert
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