a problem about softvfp and softfpa

[Wu Mingqiao]

I got gcc-3.4.0-arm-softfloat.patch from Dan Kegel and apply it to
building toolchain for xscale. But I encountered a problem. In the
patch you suggest %{msoft-float:-mfpu=softfpa}
%{!msoft-float:-mfpu=softvfp} instead of others. But when I got the
toolchain as your method, I found it can compile source file with -c
option regardless of -msoft-float option, such as 'arm-linux-gcc
-msoft-float -c test.c' or 'arm-linux-gcc -c test.c'. But if I use
'arm-linux-gcc test.c', I must specify the option -msoft-float and got
softfpa format binary, or it will report:
  /usr/local/arm-linux/arm-linux/bin/ld: ERROR: /tmp/xxx.o uses VFP
instructions, whereas a.out does not
  File format not recognized: failed to merge target specific data of
file /tmp/xxx.o
  collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

The binutils-2.14.90 has been patched with modifying #define
FPU_DEFAULT FPU_ARCH_FPA to #define FPU_DEFAULT FPU_ARCH_VFP, and it
was configured as: ../bintuils-2.14.90/configure --target=arm-linux
--prefix=/usr/local/arm-linux --disable-nls
--with-sysroot=/usr/local/arm-linux/arm-linux.

It seems that ld(generated from binutils) does not support both VFP
and FPA. Is it right? Would you give me some hint?
Thanks!

Best Regards,
Bridge Wu

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