[PATCH, MIPS] Add support for CPUs with no FPU

Richard Sandiford rsandifo@nildram.co.uk
Mon Feb 18 22:10:00 GMT 2008


"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Richard Sandiford wrote:
>> (In my view of things, gcc should add -msoft-float to the assembler
>> command line when necessary.  MIPS_ARCH_FLOAT_SPEC would do that,
>
> Putting options in .cpu/.float/... directives in the .s output file is 
> better - that way you can be sure they agree with cc1's internal state, 
> rather than hoping that specs get exactly the same logic as cc1 e.g. when 
> a later command-line option overrides an earlier one.

Good point.  I agree that's better.

Richard



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