Problem with VFP indication in ARM objects

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Thu Nov 14 07:21:00 GMT 2002


> We could have the code in BFD detect the absence of any flags, and
> then scan any code sections to see if any hardware VFP instructions
> actually exist.  If they do not, it could remark the binary as
> soft-VFP.  Ugly, but doable.

Not reliable.  At least, it isn't without the presence of mapping symbols. 
 Which, of course, we don't support yet...

R.



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