libffi on mips with no floating pointer registers/instructions

Andrew Pinski andrew.pinski@caviumnetworks.com
Wed Dec 7 01:09:00 GMT 2011


On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Charles Hardin <ckhardin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> It looks like the mips assembly code doesn't ifdef out the floating point loads and store if there is a soft and you get the expected unsupported opcode error.
>
> This is http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50051 .  You can
> look at the bug report for a simple patch.

Also this is partly an issue with the assembler which we (Cavium)
provides.  I am in the middle of posting upstream the Octeon2 support
to binutils and GCC.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski



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