ppc completely soft patches

[Aldy Hernandez]

> > For soft-float, gcc will emit calls to these in user space, and we want
> > to use the library functions in libc, not the ones that come with
> > libgcc.
> 
> Well, what's wrong with the functions in nof/libgcc.a? If gcc is used for 

libgcc is not only slower, but does not handle exceptions or rounding
modes.

And even if it did handle, say rounding modes-- how would you set it?
Glibc's <fenv.h> routines set that.

> linking they will always be used anyway, cause the link order is -lgcc -lc 
> -lgcc? If the functions in libgcc.a are broken, libgcc should be fixed 
> instead, or?

Yup, you are correct.  You'd have to add -lc to your command line to
link libc first.  It's on my TODO list to hack gcc to link -lc first
when switch foo-foo-bar is passed.

Aldy