crosstool 0.28rc36 'glibc-vfp.patch'

[Dan Kegel]

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> It just finished building.  Indeed, the 'vfp' patch fixes the
> 'printf("%f\n", 0.5); prints 0.000000' and general 'floating point
> is broken' on my big-endian hardfloat FPA ARM platform.
> 
>>>Maybe let's rename it to 'glibc-fp-byteorder.patch', and remove the
>>>misleading comment about it being for soft-float at the top of the
>>>file?  ...
> 
> It's definitely needed for hardfloat.  So I'd think it's needed for
> big-endian systems in any case, and for VFP on little-endian systems
> too.  Someone would have to verify that though.

Can you folks have a look at glibc-20040827 and verify
whether this patch is still needed and useful with that version?
Let's get ready to get this into glibc CVS if in fact it's
really a good patch for everyone.
- Dan

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