Re: cross-gcc : FPU type error

[Marius Groeger <mgroeger at sysgo dot com>]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Dimitry Andric wrote:

> On 2004-05-26 at 17:05:32 Marius Groeger wrote:
>
> >> Yup, running glibc + all apps with softfloat, VFP format.  However,
>
> > What is "all apps" in your project? If you go all the way up to X11,
> > this can be quite a lot...
>
> This is an embedded target running ARM Linux with only some dedicated
> applications, running busybox for most grunt work.  So it's not much
> work to simply recompile everything from scratch.

Thought so.

> > Actually, -msoft-float in kernel or firmware Makefiles usually means
> > "no float operations, please".
>
> Of course you can do float operations, but the compiler just won't
> emit any hardware FPU instructions. :)  My gcc's spec file is set up

Yes, of course. I just tried to explain that -msoft-float is as close
as you can get with the current toolchain.

Regards,
Marius

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