[ECOS] Floating Point emulation

[David Vrabel]

Leandro Fanzone wrote:
> I have an application built with eCos that doesn't run in a 386 without 
> i387. A simple program that performs something as silly as "unsigned n = 
> 500 * 1.5" hangs. I added the appropriate flags to prevent gcc to 
> compile with 387 support (-msoft-float, etc.) and now I realize that I 
> lack the emulation libraries.

You need to rebuild GCC to support soft-float.  A patch similar to the
one attached does the trick.

Perhaps the guys at eCosCentric could prepare i386 toolchains with 
soft-float support in future?

David Vrabel
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