problem with crosstool 0.28-pre28 supplied patch for gcc 3.3.[23] softfloat on ARM

Lennert Buytenhek buytenh@wantstofly.org
Sun Aug 15 21:02:00 GMT 2004


On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:07:38PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:

> Note that I'm personally somewhat sceptical about "generic" ARM
> toolkits, since there's so much variation in this CPU's world.  You've
> got different endiannesses, various different cores, instruction sets,
> coprocessors, etc etc.  Since glibc doesn't seem to support multilib,
> it seems nearly impossible to create one toolchain that supports it
> all.  And even if you could generate multilibs, you can have a *lot*
> of permutations!

Totally agree.

There is just no such thing as '_the_ Linux/ARM ABI', I guess...


cheers,
Lennert

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